Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:01:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 Message-ID: <199604290701.JAA01134@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604280337.LAA10519@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 28, 96 11:37:14 am"
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As Peter Wemm wrote: (Jumping late in here, my ISP suffered from a power outage over the weekend.) > As for this commit, I'd suggest that it'd be better to test for the > existance of the kernel before installing it, rather than using a > 'make' dependency. ie, something like this: > install: > @if [ ! -f kernel ]; then echo "Build the kernel first!"; exit 1; fi > .. rest of install.. Sounds reasonable. The previous version was just unacceptable since it caused a half-baked install (/kernel already renamed into /kernel.old, but no new kernel available). Btw., there are at least as many counter-examples for what Bruce has been writing. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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