On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:51:51PM +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote: > Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:40:48AM +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote: > >> UNIXROOT is used to specify a drive of a root of FHS. So if a path is > >> started with '/', then it should be translated to "$UNIXROOT/". > >> > >> * lib/relocatable.c (relocate): Prepend $UNIXROOT to pathname if it is > >> started with '/' on EMX. > > > > As one of the maintainers of the relocatable modules, the code in this > > patch seems reasonable to me. I don't know enough about OS/2 or EMX to > > know whether $UNIXROOT is a customary variable or whether this is a > > correct context for using it. Can you assure me that you've thought > > about those? > > OS/2 file system is based on drives[A-Z]. '/' means a root of a current > drive. There are maximum 26 kinds of '/'. > > For examples, consider that xxx is installed into f:/usr/bin. If > executing xxx on drive e:, '/' of xxx is e:/ not f:/. In this case, xxx > fails to find its root. > > $UNIXROOT is used to overcome this problem. On OS/2, $UNIXROOT is used > to specify a drive of '/'. And all programs following FHS are installed > on a drive specified by $UNIXROOT. In the above, if UNIXROOT is set to > 'f:'. Then '/' is translated to 'f:/' as xxx expects. > > And see <http://trac.netlabs.org/libc/wiki/UnixPenthouseApartement>. > > Still not assured ?
Thank you for explaining. I applied this to the gnulib repository. Thanks, Ben.
