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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:21:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mwlucas@gltg.com
To:        jobaldwi@vt.edu (John Baldwin)
Cc:        mwlucas@gltg.com, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make docs broken?
Message-ID:  <199910061121.HAA19671@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <199910061108.HAA19872@server.baldwin.cx> from John Baldwin at "Oct 6, 1999  7: 8:33 am"

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Thanks much!

Perhaps this should be documented in the Makefile or a README under
/usr/doc?  If not, where would I look to learn this?

> On 06-Oct-99 mwlucas@gltg.com wrote:
> > The make runs well enough, but make install chokes:
> 
>   [snip]
> 
> > /usr/share/doc/handbook ->
> > /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook
> > rm: handbook: is a directory
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> Delete your old copies of the docs in
> /usr/share/doc/{faq,handbook,tutorials} before running the install. 
> It's trying to create symlinks from the old locations to the new
> locations but the old locations still exist.  You'll only have to do
> this once.
> 
> > ==ml
> 
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> 
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