env is used as a local variable all over the place and sometimes it is
easy to get confused as to whether the global env or local env is being
used. This will become especially important when I change the way we
support our variants.
1) -L is automatically added, so don't do it ourselves
2) prepend the paths for gzstream and libelf so they are certain to
come first. The problem is that python might add /usr/lib to the path
and the user might have a locally installed version of libelf installed.
The gzstream package provides an ostream-interface for writing gzipped files.
The package comes from:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/
And is distributed under the LGPL license. Both the license and version
information has been preservered, though all other files in the package have
been purged. Minor modifications to the code have been made. The output module
detects when a filename ends in .gz and constructs an ogzstream object instead
of an ofstream object. This works for both the create(...) and find(...)
commands. Additionally, since gzstream objects needs to be closed to ensure
proper file termination, I have the output deconstructor deleting all ostream's
that it manages on behalf of find(...). At the moment, the only output file
that I know this functionality works for is stats, i.e. by specifying
"--stats-file=m5stats.txt.gz" on the command line.
