From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 19: 8:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7958137B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2D3AKC11751; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:10:20 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2D3BFB10353; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:11:15 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200103130311.f2D3BFB10353@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: ntakpe@ti.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:42:21 +0100." <53555.984415341@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:11:14 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <3AACFB55.64FA7FAB@ti.com>, Jean Louis Ntakpe writes: > >Hi, > > > >In /usr/src/etc/Makefile: > > > >"make distribution" is still trying to copy MAKEDEV to /dev > >on a system with devfs mounted to /dev. > >Since devfs is default, is this behaviour correct or my > >/etc/make.conf is missing something ? > > I think that MAKEDEV should be moved away from /dev. > > Ideally it belongs somewhere rather obscure, but /etc/MAKEDEV > is ok with me. /sbin would be better. I thought only sysv kept non-startup executables in /etc. > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message