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rvinterf backslash escape: introduce libprint The new helper function library named libprint is meant to replace the badly misnamed libg23, and will soon contain functions for printing all of the same kinds of GPF TST packets that are now handled in libg23. However, we are also moving safe_print_trace() from libasync to this new library, and changing it to emit our new backslash escape format.
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1 It has been brought to the Mother's attention that some people don't like the
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2 way our FC host tools are designed to be installed under /opt/freecalypso as
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3 opposed to some standard location like /usr/local, and that some people have
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4 been patching our Makefiles and code to move our installed binaries (and perhaps
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5 some of the support files as well) to other locations which they like better.
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7 PLEASE DON'T DO IT, especially if you are making a package or a build or setup
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8 or install script to be used by more than just you. FC host tools are a very
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9 complex package with a lot of interrelations between different tools, many
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10 tools in our suite internally invoke other tools by their /opt/freecalypso/bin
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11 absolute pathnames, some tools are designed to be invoked both by human users
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12 and by other tools (rvinterf is a prime example), and there are many support
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13 files used by various tools. If you try to outsmart the Mother and change the
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14 install location to something other than what I designed it to be, you will
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15 inevitably break something, and you probably won't notice the breakage because
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16 a typical casual user only uses a very small subset of our tools. Furthermore,
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17 if you move the install location, you will certainly break our various
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18 additional tools which are not included in the core FC host tools package but
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19 are meant to be installed on top of it, as all of them expect and require the
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20 /opt/freecalypso directory hierarchy described in doc/opt-freecalypso-tree.
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22 If your goal is to have our installed binaries accessible with a standard PATH
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23 without adding /opt/freecalypso/bin to it, the correct solution is to list the
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24 binaries installed in /opt/freecalypso/bin and make a symlink to each of these
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25 binaries from /usr/bin or from /usr/local/bin or from wherever you like. Use
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26 symlinks, don't move the binaries themselves! If you move the actual binaries,
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27 you will break those tools which internally invoke other tools, which we do a
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28 lot.
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30 If you still dislike the whole idea, consider the way Firefox does it: official
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31 release binaries from Mozilla are meant to be installed under /usr/lib/firefox
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32 or /usr/lib/firefox-$VERSION, the stuff inside that directory looks nothing like
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33 FHS, it is private to Firefox just like our /opt/freecalypso directory hierarchy
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34 is private to FreeCalypso, and the user makes one symlink from /usr/bin/firefox
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35 to /usr/lib/firefox-$VERSION/firefox or wherever the full complex package
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37 having their own non-FHS private directory trees, you can surely live with
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38 FreeCalypso doing the same.
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40 Why did we make our prefix /opt/freecalypso and not /usr/lib/freecalypso or
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41 /usr/local/freecalypso? Because there are many, many places where the full
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43 among other sensible options.
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45 Anyone who is going to make binary packages of our FC host tools (presumably
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46 for use on systems on which compilation from source is difficult) and wishes to
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47 have their packaging officially endorsed by the upstream MUST follow these
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52 breaking any part which you might consider unimportant.
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56 friendly location may optionally be included.