From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 17 12:40: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7554137B783 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA81853; Wed, 17 May 2000 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005171940.MAA81853@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: conf/18569: tool source not installed Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/18569; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Doug Barton Cc: Jim Pirzyk , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/18569: tool source not installed Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:29:51 -0700 Doug Barton wrote: > > > > But you do need the tools source if you want to do a 'make world', > > I stand corrected. src/tools/install.sh is indeed called by > Makefile.inc1. My understanding is that the stuff in the tools directory > should never be mandatory, so Marcel, could you take a look at this? I > of course may be wrong about this too. :) I don't know anything about the "non-mandatory status" of the tools subdirectory. Can you give me a pointer? The purpose of install.sh is to allow non-root builds. It only filters some arguments that prevent non-root builds. You can therefore safely override using install.sh by defining INSTALL in /etc/make.conf (eg: INSTALL=/usr/bin/install). You may need to undefine it first, but I haven't verified that... HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message