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Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:43:49 +0200 (CEST) |
> If the goal is to eventually have separate versions of groff all on
> the same system (e.g. 1.16.1 and 1.17.1) running simultaneously and
> sharing a directory tree, then there are still the problems that the
> associated binaries (e.g. troff, pic, eqn, refer, etc.) don't have
> version numbers and hence must be segregated somehow else. It was
> *this* sort of issue that puzzled me. I don't use emacs, but my
> understanding is that at least emacs and Xemacs have different
> binary names so both can be installed simultaneously in
> /usr/local/bin.
Indeed. I'm thinking about this -- the solution is quite easy; just
name the binaries, say, `groff-1.16.1' and add a hard link to
`groff'. Emacs even goes a step further: It installs binaries which
are called by Emacs only into something like
/usr/local/libexec/emacs/20.6/i686-pc-linux-gnu
Since many people use the groff programs in a pipe, this option (as
nice it is) can't be used.
Maybe groff (the program) shall check how it is called. If arg[0] is,
say, groff-1.16.1, it takes the `-1.16.1' postfix and appends it to
all programs it is calling, i.e., pic-1.16.1, grotty-1.16.1, etc.
Has somebody a more elegant solution to this problem?
Werner
- [Groff] local tmac directory, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/24
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Andy Dougherty, 2000/10/26
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/27
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Andy Dougherty, 2000/10/27
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Ted Harding, 2000/10/29
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/30
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/30
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/31
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/31
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/31
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/31
- Re: [Groff] new groff directory structure, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/10/31