Re: expect to get hacked

[Olaf Kirch <okir () caldera de>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:04:33AM +1200, zen-parse () gmx net wrote:
> Under Redhat 7.0 expect uses the wrong path for search for its libs,
> one of the paths including a /var/tmp/ component.

I assume this is another instance of a problem I've seen repeatedly with
RPMs built using the BuildRoot mechanism (i.e. where data is installed
into /some/fake/rootdir, packaged, and the fake tree thrown away again).

I've seen several RPMs where people were too lazy to patch the Makefiles
to make them install to the buildroot directory, and used stuff like
"make prefix=/tmp/foobar-1.2.3/usr install".

This can have bad side effects, like compiling /tmp/foobar-1.2.3/usr/blabla
into your search paths.

Don't do that, folks :)

Olaf
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