From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 15 23:19:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA24302 for current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24297 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:19:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA08491; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:14:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Evan Champion cc: Edwin Culp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Copy "Makefile" to "makefile" and cvsup won't touch it, and make reads the lower-case one first... Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Edwin Culp wrote: > > > If someone doesn't suggest a better way, what I've been doing is to > > Change the path of sendmail and the path in /etc/rc to maybe > > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > the same with your sendmail wrapper for qmail. That also goes for > > programs like BIND-8.1.1 > > etc:-) > > Except that a lot of programs (er, all programs :-) have > /usr/sbin/sendmail hardcoded, and make install replaces the > symlinks. > > Someone else suggested changing makefiles, but then they get updated when > I cvsup. > > If someone is going to replace any of the provided binaries, my guess is > that it would be sendmail. We have a MAKE_KERBEROS etc., what about a > MAKE_SENDMAIL? > > Or some way to get it to not install the file if it would be overwriting a > symlink? > > Evan >