From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 30 11:13:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D6F15296 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20122; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:13:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA35839; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001301913.LAA35839@vashon.polstra.com> To: dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net Subject: Re: make installworld broken??? In-Reply-To: <20000130113830.B6288@ikhala.tcimet.net> References: <20000130105959.A6288@ikhala.tcimet.net> <18191.949246750@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000130113830.B6288@ikhala.tcimet.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. John PS - Please remove me from the cc on the inevitable 50-message thread about clever ways to avoid this simple fix, all requiring 100-line perl scripts no doubt. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message