Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Bill Mitchell writes ("convenience script for building a.out packages"):
> > This is a script I've placed in /usr/local/bin/aout on my system.
> > It's intended as an aid in building a.out packages on an
> > elf-ized debian system.  It's invoked as:
> > 
> >     aout { normal command line }
> 
> Can I recommend that you call this script something other than
> `aout' ?  `aout' is one possible future directory name in /usr/bin for
> the a.out `cross-compilation' tools.

I don't see the conflict between a program name in /usr/local/bin and
a directory name in /usr/bin.  I'll happily change my local program
name to something else, but I don't understand the concern.

Actually, I think the script, or something with this functionality,
would be useful to include in the aout-<whatever> tools packages.