From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <199910220732.JAA04381@propus.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: Help with arg passing
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:32:35 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <380F5677.996ED35F@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Oct 21, 99 08:07:51 pm
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Laurynas said:
> After some pause, I'm continuing symlink development. Because I want
> to see my patch in libc sources, I have a question regarding above:
> is it acceptable to turn on !proxy method for calling all DJGPP programs
> in 2.04 ? If I understand correctly, the main reason not to do so was
> "some subtle misfeature that could be lurking somewhere". But most GNU
> makefiles anyway use long command lines, so can't we assume that this
> feature is well tested now ? If we don't do this, program called via
> symlink will see symlink's name only if it has long command line too.

Why not turn on "!proxy" when a program is called via a symlink, and
not otherwise? The symlink invocation is already very DJGPP specific.


Right,

							MartinS