From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 24 14:50: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4719137B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0OMnb962114; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:49:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101242249.f0OMnb962114@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: patch for bsd.lib.mk to create include and lib dirs Cc: clefevre@noos.fr, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:41:43 +0200." <20010125004143.B442@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <20010125004143.B442@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010124113902.B332@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200101242202.f0OM2I961735@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:49:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010125004143.B442@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Peter Pentchev writes: : Well, it's either use install -d, or define MKDIR in sys.mk. : Opinions? install -d is a little better. : > 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. I guess I'm objecting to creating directories that already exist... But it isn't a huge objection. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message