Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 18:29:59 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libss Makefile Message-ID: <199503150229.SAA05413@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503150217.SAA09430@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Mar 14, 95 06:17:37 pm
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> * Repeat after me kids: "I will not try to install files into a directory
> * when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists."
>
> I've been bitten by this several times. Maybe we can make a new flag
> to cp/install that says "the destination should be a directory...if
> not, report an error".
>
Would
install ..... ${DESTDIR}/usr/foo/.
do it ?
--
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'
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