Win3: redirect.c ?
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Tue May 6 22:31:37 EDT 2014
On May 6, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> There is a source file redirect.c in packaging/win32 together with a
> Makefile to compile this into a program called redirect.
>
> But I can't find this program in use anywhere. Can anyone remember why
> this little program is in there and is it still needed/used in some way
> ?
>From the following in ChangeLog.2007:
> 2007-07-08 13:12 andi5
>
> * [r16277] packaging/win32/dist.sh: Use redirect.exe for
> gconfd-2.exe (#450052) and qt3-wizard.exe (#452382). Move the
> original executables to bin\, use renamed copies of redirect.exe
> at the old locations.
>
> 2007-07-08 13:08 andi5
>
> * [r16276] packaging/win32/Makefile.am,
> packaging/win32/redirect.c: Add win32/redirect.c, a tool
> spawning itself in a parent bin\ directory. This program, called
> as "prog.exe (arg)*", will search for .\bin\prog.exe,
> ..\bin\prog.exe and so on. The first hit will be spawned with
> the same parameters and its exit status will be the exit status
> of this program.
It appears it was needed to launch the Qt-based AQBanking Wizard. We replaced that in 2.4.0 with a Gtk wizard (thanks to some hard work by Martin and Christian), so it's no longer required. Nuke it.
Regards,
John Ralls
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