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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: misc/4395: if exists(secure) in /usr/src/Makefile is bogus
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The following reply was made to PR misc/4395; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, j@ida.interface-business.de
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/4395: if exists(secure) in /usr/src/Makefile is bogus
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:23:37 +1000

 >/usr/src/Makefile, and a number of other Makefiles contain constructs
 >of the form:
 >
 >.if exists(secure) && !defined(NOCRYPT) && !defined(NOSECURE)
 >SUBDIR+= secure
 >.endif
 >
 >If /usr/obj/secure does exist, but /usr/src/secure doesn't, the above
 >construct wrongly causes descending into the `secure' subdirectory.
 
 How would /usr/obj/secure (actually /usr/obj/usr/src/secure) exist?
 There are normally no program directories at the top level.
 
 The bug seems to be fixed everywhere except in ed/Makefile.
 
 Bruce