From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 24 14:43:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (pool83-tch-1.Sofia.0rbitel.net [212.95.170.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BFBE37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 65139 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jan 2001 22:41:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:41:43 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Warner Losh Cc: clefevre@noos.fr, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for bsd.lib.mk to create include and lib dirs Message-ID: <20010125004143.B442@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Warner Losh , clefevre@noos.fr, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010124113902.B332@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200101242202.f0OM2I961735@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101242202.f0OM2I961735@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:02:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:02:18PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Cyrille Lefevre writes: > : would not be better to use install -d instead of mkdir -p which permit, > : if needed alsewhere, to also set ownership ? > > install -d doesn't set the ownership, except on the last component of > the path. It was brought into the tree to be compatible with other > BSDs, and many objects were raised until I made the promise that it > wouldn't be used in "new" code. This happend in 1996: > > revision 1.16 > date: 1996/09/29 06:29:54; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +56 -5 > Implement -d in install. Update the man page to reflect this change. > > But it looks like install -d has crept into the tree in other places. Well, it's either use install -d, or define MKDIR in sys.mk. Opinions? > But why have a define for this? Why not check to make sure that > directory is missing before trying to create it? I'd rather it was a define, because automatically creating directories might mean new directories *in the source tree* are left out of the hier mtree files. Having a define be turned on only by programs that know they need it could avoid this IMHO. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message