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Re: Guile 1.5.6 beta available for testing.


From: Rob Browning
Subject: Re: Guile 1.5.6 beta available for testing.
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:51:36 -0600
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> absent system dir write privs, here's "something" you can do:
>
>   mkdir /tmp/stub
>   cat > /tmp/stub/do-nothing <<EOF
>   #!/bin/sh
>   echo warning: $0 called
>   exit 0
>   EOF
>   chmod +x /tmp/stub/do-nothing
>   ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/automake
>   ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/autoconf  # etc
>   PATH=/tmp/stub:$PATH

Good idea.  I was quoting from the RELEASE file, so I'll update it
with your suggestion.  Might also be worth putting a "sleep 10" in
there so it'll be obvious when these things are being called when they
shouldn't be.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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