Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 17-09-2008 10:21:17 +0200, Santiago M. Mola wrote:
>   
>>>> Why not simply alias patch=gpatch in profile.bashrc?
>>>> See the FreeBSD profile for an example.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'd like to package portage for OpenSolaris and have it just drop-in work so
>>> modifications like what you suggest wouldn't be required.
>>>       
>> You'd still need to create an OpenSolaris profile. While you're at it,
>> you can create a profile.bashrc with the required modifications.
>>
>> I don't see any reason to not do the gpatch change, but it looks like
>> unecessary to me because you already have simpler ways to solve the
>> problem. So, requiring others to do a significant useless amount of
>> work when you can solve it with just a line is not fair.
>>     
>
> >From some experience, I can tell that an alias is not sufficient to
> cover all cases, and will result in random failures because you only
> notice too late patch is used and not gpatch.
>
> By the way, I'm against this stuff.  I rather see a PATH solution
> involved.  Portage already has a DEFAULT_PATH, and if someone refuses to
> install patch, one could always use a special directory with symlinks to
> the g-versions, e.g. patch -> /usr/sfw/bin/gpatch such that
> Portage/eclass/ebuilds don't have to bother about this at all.
>   
patch is installed and I would agree with you, but in certain 
circumstances using the GNU tools are broken.