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Subject: Re: Solaris dynamics? 
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Rick Campbell spake thus:

->Thanks.  This suggestion provided the solution.  Since I can't count
->on the pathname being the same from one machine to the next, I just
->decided that Solaris has to be handled like NT, i. e. I copied what
->was missing to my local directory and adjusted things from there.
->
->Maybe someone should remind Sun management that it's supposed to be
->Microsoft playing the technology catch-up game with Sun, not Sun
->trying to emulate Microsoft

I think you're being very unfair to Sun. I've worked in some very
heterogeneous environments you'd ever hope to encounter, and have
rarely had such trouble.

I mean we had 4 different versions of Solaris (plus circa 7 other
families of Unix) and I've always compiled everything dynamically. The 
only time I've been caught out was under Irix, and symlinking fixed
that.

I think your sysadmins are taking the piss if they install things in
different places on every machine. And if they won't put the symlinks
in for you - hack a root shell - after all, it is Solaris. :-)

nic.
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