Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:22:59 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) Message-ID: <9604301822.AA22772@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604301549.RAA01126@localhost> References: <199604292241.PAA05374@phaeton.artisoft.com> <23826.830823868@time.cdrom.com> <199604301549.RAA01126@localhost>
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<<On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:49:06 +0200, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:
> Solution: a variable MV="mv -f" in sys.mk
Better solution: write `mv -f' in Makefiles. There is no inherent
virtue in symbolic names; the need for `-f' is grossly unlikely to
change in situations where `mv' remains constant. (Paraphrase due to
Stephen Spackmann.)
> 2. Same problem for 'rm', use variable RM="rm -f"in sys.mk
Same better solution.
> 4. A target for executable scripts
> SCRIPTS= pagesize.sh # blubber.pl foo.elc
Far better:
PROG= pagesize
bsd.prog.mk:
------------------------------------
.sh:
.if defined(SCRIPTSED)
${SCRIPTSED} < ${.IMPSRC} > ${.TARGET}
.else
cp ${.IMPSRC} ${.TARGET}
chmod 755 ${.TARGET}
------------------------------------
(And remember to turn off `-s' in `realinstall'.)
-GAWollman
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