From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 23 3: 1:51 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BCB14CB8; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 121606-0002Zg-00; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:01:43 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA80651; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:01:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <38620115.A1696E0E@scc.nl> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:01:41 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Matthew Dillon , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 References: <199912230549.VAA16362@apollo.backplane.com> <19991222235007.A74904@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > I disagree - there are too many path locations floating around during > > a buildworld which might contain 'sysctl'. Absolute paths should be > > used across the board to be absolutely sure that the *correct* program > > is being run. Otherwise the confusion will only multiply. > > FYI: in my case absolute path _already_have_ /sbin but Makefile.inc1 explicitly > overwrite it! As explained in another posting: That's not the case. Makefile.inc1 only prepends to the PATH, which means that if /sbin isn't in the path *anywhere* in the build process, it's hasn't been there from the start (modulo bugs :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message