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Subject: Re: Q: why install -d dir missing ?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 18:18:43 MET
From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD)
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>
> As haury@sagem.fr wrote:
>>
>> I am wondering why the well known option '-d' is missing in current install
>> program. Since I am a newbie in FreeBSD, I hope it's not an old war :-)
>
> It is. :-)
>
> Directories are to be created via the /etc/mtrees/* templates, not via
> some hack in install(1).

OK, let me open up old wounds.  What does /etc/mtrees have to do with
the latest version of xfoo that I found on the net?  Unfortunately,
xfoo's Makefile uses install -d.

Greg