From owner-cvs-sys Mon Apr 29 00:21:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-sys Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA27641 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA27544 Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA07473; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:19:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03746; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:20:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA01134; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:01:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604290701.JAA01134@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:01:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604280337.LAA10519@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 28, 96 11:37:14 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)