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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: conf/1076: 'make install' fails for /usr/src/share/examples in -stable
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> >         When 'make install'ing in /usr/src/share/examples, multiple errors
> >         of the type
> 
> Hmm.  I'm not sure about your fix.  My suggested fix would be:
> 
> install:
> 	@echo "You cannot install these examples directly."
> 
> I think they haven't ever been intended to be auto-installable, they

Yes they are.  The directories should have been created by running
mtree on /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist earlier in the install.

Bruce