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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD 
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> I'd still like to merge in the -d code from NetBSD/OpenBSD.
...
> I've seen it in a few other makefiles floating around on the net.  I'm
> not advocating that we use it for the 'make install' phase of the
> build process, just that it be available.
> 
> With that clarification, do people generally like or dislike the
> proposal?

Doesn't GNU-install support '-d'?  If so, the functionality is already
available.


Nate