Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

I agree. I think chroot is more elaborate, but much more systematic 
solution to the issue at hand. Using chroot, sorcery would make sure 
nothing gets out of the jail. Since I'm not very knowledgeable in 
details of chroot-ing, I hope somebody could point me to the opinion or 
just explain why $INSTALL_ROOT and not chroot.
Thanks!

Sergey.

Andrew wrote:

> so in reference to a conversation with alley_cat and zero_the_hero this
> morning, is this really a good idea? does this really accomplish what
> we want? does it justify a grimoire wide change, and a 'from now on'
> attitude about how to write spells? spell writing can be fickle enough
> as it is, we dont want to introduce further complications by adding an
> error prone feature like this as a requirement to all future spells?
>
> My main gripe is that this is supposed to aid in cross compilation. Well
> no not really, because you have to hide the real system libraries and
> include files.  The standard argument appeals to ./configure; to which
> i respond, what about all those spells that dont use it? Dont tell me
> that the authors should go and start using configure now, thats bs and
> we all know it.
>
> To me this just makes it so you can install stuff elsewhere, through an
> overly annoying modification to many current and future spells. This
> is going to be error prone, if you dont see it, i suggest explaining to
> a newbie why this variable has to exist and how to sedit makefiles to
> install in the right place. There should be a better solution than this.
>
> Andrew
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