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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:02:36 +0300
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at>
Cc:        "Al.Chechet" <alx@koncom-utc.ukrtel.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freetype2 install problem
Message-ID:  <20020719100236.GA71113@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20020718125302.GB1961@Deadcell.ant>
References:  <200207180816.g6I8GB4k060849@koncom-utc.ukrtel.net> <20020718125302.GB1961@Deadcell.ant>

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Hello, Andreas Ntaflos!

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:53:02PM +0200, you wrote:

> You seem to have "." in your $PATH. I've had that problem too 2 weeks
> ago; remove "." from your path and the build should work just fine. As
Moreover, "." in $PATH is HIGHLY dangerous.
Example: CGI script makes file called 'ls' in /tmp with following
contents:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf /

You (root) cd'ing to /tmp, typing 'ls', and got HDD virgin clean :)

> I understand, there is a script in work/freetype-2.1.2 called install,
> which gets executed when you have the current directory "." in your
> path, which calls GNU make and GNU install, instead of the correct BSD
> make and install. This leads to the incompatible Makefile syntax.
> 
> Search through the archives from ~2 weeks ago, you'll find it explained
> there.

-- 
NEVE-RIPE
Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group
http://uafug.org.ua/

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