Re: [Bug-wget] contributing to wget

[vivi]

On 11/06/10 15:38, Tony Lewis wrote:
> 
> Detecting and reporting problems with the system wgetrc file is a really
> good addition.
> 
> However, there is no reason to believe that the user has any way to convince
> the system administrator to solve the problem. Even if the administrator
> agrees, an internal change control process may determine when the
> administrator can make the change; on some systems this can take months.
> While waiting for that to happen, the user is completely blocked.

Ah, I see.

> How does installing one's own copy of wget help? (Unless you mean that the
> user hacks the source code to remove processing of the system wgetrc file.)

If a prefix is set, for example
        
        ./configure --prefix=/home/rezdev/wget

and then make install is run, the wgetrc file should be placed in the
prefix directory. So the SYSTEM_WGETRC variable would refer to the file
at /home/rezdev/wget/etc/wgetrc rather than /etc/wgetrc.

> wget is a command-line tool that is often used in a batch environment. You
> cannot force user interaction on every invocation to get around a broken
> system wgetrc file.
> 
> Tony

True, Maybe printing a warning could suffice at this point in time?

        -Reza