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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:16:22 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, pius@iago.ienet.com
Subject: Re: Makefiles with chown user.group instead of chown user:group
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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