Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:08:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: compiling syslinux-1.40
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On 6 Jul 1998, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> 1a.  Consider these examples:
>      #define _PATH_DEFPATH           "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
>      #define _PATH_CONSOLE   "/dev/console"
>      #define _PATH_DEVDB     "/var/run/dev.db"
>      #define _PATH_LOCALE    "/usr/share/locale"
> 
>      They are very system specific.

Yes, but there should be no problem to augment them to DJGPP:

      #define _PATH_DEFPATH   "c:/djgpp/bin;c:/dos;c:/windows;/usr/bin;/bin"
      #define _PATH_CONSOLE   "/dev/tty"
      #define _PATH_DEVDB     "c:/djgpp/var/run/dev.db"
      #define _PATH_LOCALE    "c:/djgpp/share/locale"

(Actually, the 3rd one can be eliminated, since no package uses it).

> 1b.  Not only that, they are different from (DOZE) system to (DOZE)
>      system. We don't want users to go and edit them, do we?

Of course they are different.  The DJGPP variant should be different,
along the above lines.

And of course, if a user wants these to be correct rather than
generic, they can always edit the file per the installation.

> 2.  There are a lot of them. I only gave some examples.

I looked at all of them, they don't seem to present any special
problems.