Re: FYI: Ignoring SIGPIPE in libtoolize

2006-05-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:39:30AM CEST: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:25:41AM CEST: > > > > >

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
replying after two years... I know. Hope you still remember this issue and the patch is not too stale by now... > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:59:38PM CET: > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on We

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:38 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > > I think that all above is out of libtool scope. > It's is exceptional project specific (lets skip cross-compilation > environment) and is subject of project regression test suite. > The project is responsible to set appropriate test e

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:40 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > An unfortunate thing is that not all software is configured the same. > For example, my own software supports independent configuration for > the location of different types of files. A single top "prefix" > environment variable wou

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 00:45 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:38 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > >> > >> I think that all above is out of libtool scope. > >> It's is exceptional project specific (lets skip cr

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 02:32 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > [SNIP] > >> But if user run directly an application installed in non-default > >> location the user is responsible to set environment. > > > > I'm not talking about a

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:53 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > In some cases application depend from other services. > In this case a specific to project wrapper script has to run > services, > to check if service is run, to run project application and when > application finish to stop service. The

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:32 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > > About "no way to fix this problem with autotools". Why ? > As example libxml can run binaries from build dir. In one of the > tests > is created specific xml catalog and application is run with this > catalog > instead with system.

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:36 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I assume that it works. Of course it does not work with some > IDE-based debuggers. It can be made to work with programs like 'ddd' > and 'emacs' which talk to a traditional debugger over a pseudo-tty or > pipe. autotool-aware IDE

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:27 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > I perfectly know that user > cannot go in build-dir and just to run secure shell daemon/client. And if you are happy with that, good for you. In GNOME though, we want our users to be able to run uninstalled programs. If this feature is n

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:16 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > For my users, from make and some wrapper script, I setup environment, > run some servers (as example openldap with preloaded data) run > un-installed programs so my users see that things work before to > install. Ok, then this feature wi

Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

2008-04-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 16:32 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:27 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > >> I perfectly know that user > >> cannot go in build-dir and just to run secure shell daemon/client. > > > > A