Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

[Paolo Bonzini]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:27 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > I perfectly know that user 
> > cannot go in build-dir and just to run secure shell daemon/client.
>
> And if you are happy with that, good for you.  In GNOME though, we want
> our users to be able to run uninstalled programs.  If this feature is
> not interesting to you, fine.  I don't understand why you are so
> opposing it.

In GNU Smalltalk, "./gst" is used if you don't need to load any plugin, 
while "tests/gst" is used if you need plugins; "tests/gst" is created by 
config.status.  Most of the time launching "./gst" is enough; and since 
its startup time is much faster than "tests/gst", I didn't feel the need 
to use the more user-friendly executable as the default.

I see how you might consider this a poor choice if you have a lot of 
executables; OTOH autoconf does the same and has 6-7 executables.

Paolo