Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/03/31/03:39:04
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If you're creating your own libraries and want to store them separately
> > from the standard ones, then I recommend creating a directory for that
> > purpose and adding the path to the DJGPP.ENV file.
>
> Please don't advise users to edit DJGPP.ENV. Its syntax is cryptic,
> and a wrong change in it can easily render a DJGPP installation
> useless.
Sorry, I assumed people would back it up before editing :) Also assumed
that people would only touch the parts they understood (eg. I wouldn't
touch the [ls] section since I don't have a clue about it :D ).
Hadn't thought of newbies :o
A question. Is there any package out there that edits DJGPP.ENV? If not
then the file could just be recopied from the latest djdev*.zip if there
was any problem with it ..
> > Under the section [gpp] there is an env variable called LIBRARY_PATH.
> > Just add your library path to it and from then on the library will be
> > available for all your projects while still being stored separately from
> > the djgpp standard libraries.
>
> These kinds of changes should be done by setting environment
> variables, not by editing DJGPP.ENV.
Fair enough
> Not that I understand why putting user libraries in the same directory
> as system libraries would be a problem in the first place.
Just a personnal choice I made in case I need to reinstall packages. That
way I could (if necessary) delete all the other directories and reinstall
DJGPP from scratch.
Sorry if I caused any trouble to newbies :)
DSK
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