[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [arch-users] problem with tla on freebsd

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:25:55 +0200, Patrick Mauritz <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:51:24AM -0700, Miles Egan wrote:
>> Error calling `vu_lstat' for "INSTALL" (No such file or directory)
>> PANIC: I/O error
>> 
>> The file INSTALL definitely exists.  This doesn't happen to me when I do
>> the same operations on Linux.
>I had that problem with netbsd when I didn't use gnu patch, diff and tar..
>you can set up tla to use them somehow, but try a directory with symlinks
>gpatch -> patch etc. first, which you put in front of your PATH - probably
>it works then..

I've tried this on one of my afflicted FreeBSD systems, and that does
work.  However, it's what I would refer to as a gross and unsatisfying
hack.

The underlying problem is that tla has hard-coded notions about what
the names of these programs are; it looks for "patch", "diff" and
"tar".  However, on FreeBSD the standard names are, respectively,
"gpatch", "gdiff", and "gtar", so as not to conflict with their BSD
counterparts.

Ideally, this would get sorted out by the "configure" script at
compile time, or else perhaps specified in =meta-info somehow.

--Mirian