add scp path to _PATH_STDPATH

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Thu Mar 1 11:31:07 EST 2001


On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:
> 
> > thanks, i finally looked at this.
> >
> > i don't like munging path if a user specified a path
> > (--with-default-path).  i don't know if we want to try to maintain per
> > platform default paths, and they probably should not include '.', as
> > some of the defaults in the patch do.
> >
> > i would like to see the path to scp added only if the user did not
> > specify --with-default-path, and the default path does not contain scp.
> 
> Because the PATH is usually obtained from the system include files,
                      ^^^^^^^
Hmm, Of all the platfoms I heve here only the linux ones do.
I hadn't even noticed that before.
Looks like I need to improve my patch.

> you'll need to write a little autoconf test program which includes the
> same path setting logic as defines.h and check whether @bindir@ is in
> the resultant path.

Another interesing chalange.

> 
> -d
> 
> 

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