Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: Edwin Culp <eculp@mexcom.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971116021410.8480A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971115211901.9762N-100000@cello.synapse.net>
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Copy "Makefile" to "makefile" and cvsup won't touch it, and make reads the
lower-case one first...
Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com
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Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on" -DB
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Edwin Culp wrote:
>
> > If someone doesn't suggest a better way, what I've been doing is to
> > Change the path of sendmail and the path in /etc/rc to maybe
> > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> > the same with your sendmail wrapper for qmail. That also goes for
> > programs like BIND-8.1.1
> > etc:-)
>
> Except that a lot of programs (er, all programs :-) have
> /usr/sbin/sendmail hardcoded, and make install replaces the
> symlinks.
>
> Someone else suggested changing makefiles, but then they get updated when
> I cvsup.
>
> If someone is going to replace any of the provided binaries, my guess is
> that it would be sendmail. We have a MAKE_KERBEROS etc., what about a
> MAKE_SENDMAIL?
>
> Or some way to get it to not install the file if it would be overwriting a
> symlink?
>
> Evan
>
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