Installing executables with generic names

Ade Lovett ade at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 14 20:02:29 UTC 2012


On 2/14/2012 11:27, Chris Rees wrote:
> bin/foo-bar means it can still be called without an explicit path, so that
> is better.
>
> Look for autoconf hooks to add prefices this way (if it uses configure...)

Please also don't forget to scream at the upstream to stop using such 
generic names too.  Otherwise we're going to potentially be looking at a 
lot of patching in dependent ports:  s#generic#foo-generic#

-aDe



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