Re: [MiNT] C++

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 10:46 +1000, Miro Kropáček wrote:


> I see your point, however this is sometimes even not possible at all.
> Especially for packages like bash or gcc. If you take a closer look at
> Jo's great VanillaMiNT or AFROS or uMint :) you'll notice that
> 'clutter' is still there, it just resides in c:\mint\etc, c:\mint\tmp
> etc... these applications require the Unix filesystem because they
> are, well, Unix applications.

Actually not. In VanillaMiNT there is only one "unix" directory, and
that's u:\etc. This is because all applications that use MiNTnet
requires u:\etc\resolv.conf to be present in order to resolve network
addresses.

It would be nice if the location and name of resolv.conf could be
configured, e.g. through an environment variable. But that would require
changes in MiNTlib and recompilation of all applications.

But you're right, while it's perfectly possible to use bash and
fileutils (and also gcc) without a "unix" folder hierarchy it's a lot
easier to just bend over and accept the (to me) bizarre unix philosophy
of scattering files all over the filesystem.

Jo Even