From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 31 6:51:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750D414C15 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA93543; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001311450.GAA93543@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: make installworld broken??? In-Reply-To: <20000131140715.CEF341CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jan 31, 2000 10:07:15 pm" To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:50:23 -0800 (PST) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good analysis deleted... > src/usr.bin/xinstall could probably have been named src/usr.bin/install, > but PROG has to be xinstall regardless. I guess they kept the two as > xinstall for consistancy and in case there were other gotcha's like this. But you forgot what happens if you have a ``file'' named install: cd /tmp mkdir install make install Now you know the real reason the directory is called ``xinstall''. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message