Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] gawk 4.1.1 replace "/inet" with preprocessor macro

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Dave Sines)
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:26:29 +0100
> 
> "/inet" is a directory on my system so to avoid confusion I usually build
> gawk without network support.
> 
> The following patch allows an alternative base path to be specified via
> CPPFLAGS during the build.  The documentation is not modified.
> 
>   CPPFLAGS="-DGAWK_INET_PATH='\"whatever\"'" \
>   ./configure && make && make check

How will this help, if Gawk programs out there are written using
"/inet", literally?  What you suggest will only allow you to run your
programs on your machines, but you cannot possibly share them with
anyone else, nor use programs written by others.

OTOH, a problems with a directory called "/inet", if it ever gets in
the way of your Gawk programs, can be worked around by using something
like "/usr/../inet" or some such.

Or am I missing something?