Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:49:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at> Cc: Bryan Liesner <bleez@bellatlantic.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freetype2?? again! Message-ID: <200207020449.g624nFDN044861@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020702004118.A1105@Deadcell.ant> <20020701191014.E134-100000@gravy.kishka.net> <20020702062113.B1105@Deadcell.ant>
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Just as a side note, here, you should never put "." in root's path for
security reasons. If you do you may accidently run a tojan that
happens to be in the current directory and named after a common
command like 'ls' (for example if you are examining a user's directory
as root or you are cd'd into /var/tmp). It may be convenient, but it
is far better to get used to typing './BLAH' for things you want to run
from the current directory then to make it automatic and potentially
blow the machine's security.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:16:59PM -0400, Bryan Liesner wrote:
:>
:> You must have "." in your path. There's a shell script called install
:> in the distribution:
:> #!/bin/sh
:> make install
:>
:> That'll cause problems!
:
:Thank you for your answer.
:
:Unfortunately this is not what causes the problems here. I always have
:"." in my path. Also, trying to install it from the work directory in
:/usr/ports/print/freetype2 results in the same errors. So does the old
:classic way of `make install` in the same directory.
:
:What else could be the cause of the failure?
:
:regards
:--
: Andreas "ant" Ntaflos
: ant@overclockers.at
: Vienna, AUSTRIA
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