From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 21:27:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F7616A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:27:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28B0043D62 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:27:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: (qmail 58767 invoked from network); 12 May 2005 21:27:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ale.varnet.bsd) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 12 May 2005 21:27:53 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 200.115.214.28 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:29:07 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050512182907.177e2ab9@ale.varnet.bsd> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: INSTALL_DIR or MKDIR ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:27:57 -0000 Hello, I noticed that some ports use INSTALL_DIR (custom, not in bsd.port.mk) instead of using MKDIR. The difference I noticed is that INSTALL_DIR explicity sets the permissions appropiately with INSTALL (owner, group and mode). The bsd.port.mk makefile warns if the mask is not 022, and if the user is not root. So is INSTALL_DIR needed (is better than MKDIR)? If yes, why it is not in bsd.port.mk? Thanks and Best Regards, Ale