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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request)
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>1. some Makefile use 'mv' without option '-f'. This may fail mv(1)
>  into interactive mode if you are not root and the destination
>  file is write protected.

>$ touch a b; chmod 444 a b; /bin/mv a b
>override r--r--r--  wosch/wheel for b? ;-((

Install usually has to be run by root so that it can chown the target,
so this shouldn't be a problem.

>Solution: a variable MV="mv -f" in sys.mk

>2. Same problem for 'rm', use variable RM="rm -f"in sys.mk

I'd prefer to avoid this (and to someday avoid my ECHO and INSTALL
macros :-).

>3. Wired /usr/share/mk/sys.mk. make -I <dir> do not change the
>   directory for sys.mk. We need this for ``make DESTDIR=/foo world''
>   so /foo/usr/share/mk/sys.mk would be used.

>Does someone test the following patch?
>...
>-#define        _PATH_DEFSYSMK          "/usr/share/mk/sys.mk"
>+#define        _PATH_DEFSYSMK          "sys.mk"
> #define        _PATH_DEFSYSPATH        "/usr/share/mk"

I thought that you said this was only a temporary fix when we talked
about it in private mail.  What gets used if sys.mk is in "." and in
paths specified by -I?  I think ./sys/mk should only be used if "-I."
is used.

>4. A target for executable scripts

Yes, this has been delayed too long.

5. A target for miscellaneous files.  This has also been delayed too long.

6. Think about avoiding sed'iting scripts and miscellaneous files.  Some
GNUish makefiles are about 10 times as long as BSDish makefiles because
they handling things more generally.

Bruce