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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:20:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs)
Cc:        imp@village.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: top 3.3 nit
Message-ID:  <199607140920.LAA15965@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607140718.QAA16706@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Jul 14, 96 04:48:15 pm"

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As Peter Childs wrote:

> : If you have . in your path, then make install will fail for the top
> : port in -current.
> 
>  If you have . in your path, and are running "make install" (so i
>  guess your root) then your asking for trouble.
> 
>  Its pretty much accepted that root shouldn't have . in its path.

That's no excuse for a broken installation rule.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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