Re: [PATCH 8 of 9] scripts/build/internals.sh: Always use binary wrapper under BSD/MacOS

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Titus, Arnaud, All,

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 00:59:03 Titus von Boxberg wrote:
> Am 18.05.2010 um 22:34 schrieb Arnaud Lacombe:x
> > rather than introducing (incomplete) special cases, it might be better
> > to remove the GNU readlink dependency once for all. There is 3
> removing GNU readlink is at least my intention.
> There is no necessity to replace it with a handcrafted script
> because there are no incompatible calls left.
> My intention also was to not restructure (and possibly break)
> anything else. Therefore the (sufficient and complete) if clause.

Yes. Let's not invest too much time trying to come up with workarounds
for an issue that we'll eventualy get rid of at the next major release
(or the next one, maybe).

Titus' solution is simple, even if it is not perfect. What the hell!
It's good enough for what it will serves at.

> As far as I understood Yann, the wish is to completely remove the wrapper.
> Thus, I see this case as irrelevant because it will get removed, anyway.
> If the wrapper remains necessary as an intermediate solution,
> I'd rather remove the wrapper script completely
> and always rely on the binary wrapper on all platforms.
> Then the if stmt would be obsolete.

Definitely the plan, yes!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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