pathmap semantics issues

[Fernando Nasser]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:53:38AM -0500, David Taylor wrote:
> >Okay, here's some questions concerning how pathmap should behave:
> >
> >. should it translate all paths?  Or just some paths?  If some, which?
> >Source paths?  Others?  That is, should it be consulted when looking
> >for sources?, objects?, executables?, and shared objects?
> >
> >. should it be searched instead of the existing path?  Or in addition?
> >If in addition, which should be searched first?
> >
> >Do people care?
> 
> I would think that it should be "all paths".  If you've gone to the
> effort of issuing the pathmap command then it must be for the reason
> that you don't have the specific path on your system and need to
> translate it.  So, using the pathmap translation for everything would
> make sense, IMO.
> 

I agree with Chris.


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