From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 31 8:23:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5CD14CC0 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA241CD7; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:23:18 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld broken??? In-Reply-To: Message from "Rodney W. Grimes" of "Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:50:23 PST." <200001311450.GAA93543@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:23:18 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000131162318.4CA241CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > 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''. Ahh yes, of course. 'cd src/usr.bin; make install' would fail. :-) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message