Re: Those bizzar scripts added to the various kaffe shell scripts

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 10 1998 - 20:01:24 EDT


>
> Okay, what are these bizzar shell scripts about at the top of each of
> the scripts/... files? Is their only purpose to find where the 'kaffe'
> binary is and run it directly (so assuming it's not in the path?). If
> it is, why don't we just fix these scripts during configure? Or am I
> missing something?
>

I think finding it even when it's not in the path is one thing.
The other thing is that you'd be able to symlink to it, like if you
configure kaffe to install and live in /opt/kaffe/install, you can symlink
to /usr/bin/kaffe.

        - Godmar


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