RE: 7Zip Problem (from rpg400 list)

Then install the software somewhere besides /usr/local and create the
link in the environment that it works. I have done this with the a
couple of free download utilities that works in either PASE, QP2TERM or
QSH but not all. Also it makes it easier to keep track of 3rd party
software installs.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:09 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: 7Zip Problem (from rpg400 list)

What you really want is /QOpenSys/usr/local pointing to /usr/local, or

vice versa. It really doesn't matter which way the link exists as
long as one points to the other. This allows PASE utilities to be
used from qshell and vice versa. PASE utilities are looking for
something in /QOpenSys/usr/local, and qshell utilities are typically
looking for something in /usr/local.

No, that is apparently what you want and maybe what Scott wants. It's
not what I want and I'll argue that it's not what's best. The reason
it's not what I want is that I don't want things in either environment
that are not valid. For example, the zip (not 7-Zip) utility intended
for AIX can be installed in PASE but will not execute (last I tried) in
QSH environment.
If I tie /usr/local together for the two environments, then in effect I
have a zip program in /usr/local/bin that won't run in my QSH
environment. If later I decide to put in another ZIP executable just
for QSH, then I don't have a way to do it without messing up the PASE
environment's zip.

In my PASE my PATH does not include /usr/local/bin; it includes
/QOpenSys/usr/local/bin instead, and the two are not linked. I don't
install PASE stuff into /usr/local/anything; that stuff goes under the
/QOpenSys filesystem as IBM intended. If there are scripts and so on
that I need to share between the environments, then I link at the file
level, like
this:

ln -fs /usr/local/bin/my-cool-script /QOpenSys/usr/local/bin

It just isn't that hard to do it right.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve
it through not dying."
-- Woody Allen

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