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 ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man 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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