From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 23: 2:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98FE5150BD for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 17005 invoked from network); 15 Mar 1999 07:01:16 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 1999 07:01:16 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990314225658.00ab12a0@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:01:14 -0800 To: Leo Kliger From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: where's BASH Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199903150551.QAA05272@astea.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:43 PM 3/14/99 , Spam Me Here wrote: >It isn't installed by default, go to /usr/ports/shells/bash2, >and ( as root ) type > >make ; make install ; make clean I've found that with any kind of command line involving multiple makes which depend on the previous, && is preferable to ;, so the line would be make && make install && make clean This way, if make or make install fail, make won't clean up its progress so far. Could you imagine what would happen if you did a make clean following every hiccup of installing the KDE port? Or (speaking from personal experience) you were building your first 3.1-S kernel where you had previously made 2.2.8 kernels... the make depend fails... the 2.2.8 kernel (left over from earlier) gets installed... the next reboot brings a nasty surprise. Moral of story: use && instead of ; --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message