From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 21:59:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA17047 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA17042 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17342 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Oct 1997 04:59:20 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha-092597 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199710030159.LAA00633@word.smith.net.au> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Make depend is broken? Still?? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Mike Smith; On 03-Oct-97 you wrote: > > Hi Y'all, > > > > I may dare say there is a possibility of a bug in the -current main > > makefile; > > It's not there. The problem is that the initial depend pass for 'make' > puts the .depend file in the source directory : > > kingsford:/work/src/usr.bin/make>ls -la .depend > -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 35208 Oct 2 15:24 .depend > > Here I'm worlding as root and thus can write it OK; I suspect your > problem is that you aren't, and thus can't. Wrong guess :-) I am running it as root. The mistake was explained to me (it was mine). As long as the problem is recognizable and the solution workable, I am a happy man. It is and I am. Thanx! --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313