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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:35:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2R 'make install' in /usr/src/release/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970323113422.5369E-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970322124640.206A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>

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On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote:

> After getting src-2.2-0213 I thought I would try to compile just a piece
> of the world and settled on sysinstall.
> 
> I cd'ed to /usr/src/release/sysinstall (as root) and did 'make'.  This
> worked fine to all appearances so I did 'make install'.  This produced the
> error message:
> 
> install -c -s -o bin -g bin -m 555   sysinstall 
> usage: install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 file2
>        install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 ...
>              fileN directory
>        install -d [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...

Hm, the destination directory is missing.  You can just copy sysinstall to
where you want it to go and chmod 5555 sysinstall and chown bin:bin
sysinstall to get the same functionality.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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