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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:57 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make installworld broken???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001311128130.97346-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001301913.LAA35839@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, John Polstra wrote:

> > > It's source-dir is called "xinstall" btw.
> > Why is the source called "xinstall"?
> 
> To avoid colliding with the standard make target "install".  If we
> had utilities named "all", "depend", and "clean" we'd have to do the
> same thing for them.

Mhmmm... Isn't this something that .PHONY target is supposed to handle?

Andrzej Bialecki

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