On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > +#define COMPRESS "/bin/gzip" > > +#define UNCOMPRESS "/bin/gunzip -c"
> I've never been a proponent of hardcoding paths to programs. This will > immediately make the program non-portable to basically any non-GNU type > system, and doesn't provide any significant benefit (/bin is in PATH). I'm not terribly keen on it myself, but I do think that it's safer than trusting a potentially malicious $PATH setting. I guess the alternative approach is to set this in the Makefile, that would keep the portability a little bit more contained. Steve --- www.steve.org.uk
