i posted here a couple days ago with a fairly minor (depending on how you look
at it) installation problem and while ive used string and duct tape to fix it, i
have not heard anything back about it.
the problem is if you ./configure --with-default-path=/yourpath it doesnt seem
to actually work. scp was not working for me and after checking the faq, i saw
this was my problem as scp was installed to /usr/local/bin. so i made distclean
and configured --with-default-path=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin and rebuilt.
after this didnt work (several times), i followed a suggestion that someone sent
to me and i 'ssh [myhost] echo \$PATH'. this was the output:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
i thought i was doing something wrong until i did the same thing on a
friend's box and it was the same. how was his scp working? a symlink in
/bin. while i knew that would fix the problem, i was avoiding doing that
because, well, it should work the RIGHT way. but i did the symlink thing and
now it works, but i still think its lame.
so i just wanted to know. am i doing something wrong or is this indeed a bug in
the configuration/installation?
also, if i was doing some strange security lockdown and i really cared what the
default path was, i might be upset that this didnt work...as it is, im fine with
it working, i just want to know if its something im doing or what.
-j
