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 // <abial@webgiro.com> 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
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