Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:16:22 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, pius@iago.ienet.com Subject: Re: Makefiles with chown user.group instead of chown user:group Message-ID: <199703060816.TAA27895@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>There are a few Makefiles in the source tree that each contain one or >two occurrences of chown(8) that use a '.' instead of a ':' to separate >the user operand from the group operand. Since I had recompiled chown >without -DSUPPORT_DOT, this caused my "make world" to repeatedly fall >over. These are the Makefiles: > > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/mm/Makefile > /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk > /usr/src/games/boggle/Makefile > /usr/src/share/me/Makefile > /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/Makefile > /usr/src/usr.bin/ee/Makefile > >I submitted a PR only for the first one (it caused the build-tools >target to fall over -- the other ones caused the install target to >fall over). Most of these are broken for another reason: they build things at install time and/or don't use `install' properly. Bruce
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