From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 29 20:26:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09752 for current-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 20:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09733 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 20:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from professor.eng.umd.edu (professor.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.23]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01743; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:25:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by professor.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA06133; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:25:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:25:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@professor.eng.umd.edu To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: remote make install In-Reply-To: <199606291621.SAA29231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > SYSEXITS(3) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual SYSEXITS(3) > > > Very good info. I looked at make's man page, but couldn't see any > > reference to error returns. Is there any possiblity of changing the man > > page to include a reference to sysexits(3) ? > > This manpage is relatively new still. Perhaps all utilites that > adhere to sysexits(3) should xref it in their man pages, and the man > page of make should make it clear that it's the exit status of the > command. Well, at least the first step in that direction would be adding something to the install man page, because what it says now about errors is nearly nothing. I don't have commit privs, but I'd be willing to send diffs to anyone who wanted to commit changes to install (the change would be small). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------