From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 31 2:29:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596B914C34 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 109FC2DC0A; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 401B47811; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3478E10E10; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:57 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: John Polstra Cc: dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installworld broken??? In-Reply-To: <200001301913.LAA35839@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message