Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:57:43 -0500
From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <v02140b00ae6eba87b1b4@[208.2.87.4]>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>Besides, there is a very good reason to have the option. > ^not >>When you are bootstrapping, you don't care about "doing it right", but >>simply "getting it done". The fewer tools required, the better. > >Only mkdir and cp are required. Portable makefiles often use cp because >`install' might not be available. I agree. Unfortunately "cp" does not understand the "-o bin -g bin" and other options that currently get forced onto the call to "install". As a result, at a minimum, you have to write a shell script for "install" to strip out the extra arguments.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?v02140b00ae6eba87b1b4>