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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
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: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/4395: if exists(secure) in /usr/src/Makefile is bogus
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:29:34 +0200

 As Bruce Evans wrote:
 
 > >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?
 
 By a previous `make' where /usr/src/secure did exist.
 
 I've posted this on behalf of a friend who's been hit by it for the
 second time...  I believe it's bogus to check for `exist(secure)' in
 the /usr/obj hierarchy, that's why i've made it a PR.
 
 -- 
 J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
 joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j