From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 04:00:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA19741 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA19703 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eel.dataplex.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA02555 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:01:08 -0700 Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod [208.2.87.4]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09197; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:57:42 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@eel.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:57:43 -0500 To: Bruce Evans From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>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.