Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:47:21 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libss Makefile Message-ID: <199503150247.MAA29436@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> * Repeat after me kids: "I will not try to install files into a directory > * when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists." >I've been bitten by this several times. Maybe we can make a new flag >to cp/install that says "the destination should be a directory...if >not, report an error". >Then we can put this flag to the master Makefile or /etc/make.conf and >be all happy (or at least know it as soon as it fails). Just use a slash after the directory name: install -c /etc/passwd /tmp/nonesuch/ Bruce
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