From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 10:44: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBC414C9D for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06703; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:43:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Ken Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yabq In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990709090936.00802a30@pop.bois.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Ken wrote: > yabq: yet another boneheaded question.... > > I was checking out the tripwire port the other day and wanted to make with > floppy option, so I did; > > make TRIPWIRE_FLOPPY=YES > make install > > Just like I always do when I want to specify non default options like > USA_RESIDENT, etc. However, in this case the floppy wasn't written to > unless I included the floppy statement in my make install command as well. > Should I always be doing this? In general, if you do X and it doesn't work, and you do Y and it works, you "should" do Y. :) The thing about unix is that there is more than one way to do things in almost every situation, so "should" is a relative term. In this particular case if you were building the tripwire port you could do, 'make TRIPWIRE_FLOPPY=YES install clean' and it would perform all the steps for you in one go. Some non-port installations allow you to do this, most (especially those based on GNU autoconf) don't, so you'd have to add your flag to both commands. Hope this helps, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message