From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 14 03:45:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA27278 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 03:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA27263 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 03:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA25990; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 12:44:58 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA22066; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 12:44:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA15965; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:20:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607140920.LAA15965@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: top 3.3 nit To: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:20:38 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607140718.QAA16706@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Jul 14, 96 04:48:15 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)