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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 1995 18:08:23 -0800
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk
Message-ID:  <199511160208.SAA01076@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199510251635.RAA19353@localhost> (message from Wolfram Schneider on Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:35:25 %2B0100)

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 * Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:35:25 +0100
 * From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 * 
 * 
 * Some bsd.*.mk files use absolute pathnames, eg. /bin/rm or
 * /usr/sbin/pkg_create. 
 * 
 * I use FreeBSD 2.0A and install the pkg_create from 2.1 in
 * /usr/local/bin. This does not work because pkg_create was hard coded
 * as /usr/sbin/pkg_create in bsd.port.mk. Same for the new sed(1). 
 * 
 * In my opinion absolute pathnames should never used.
 * 
 * 
 * wosch@campa <17:22:18> [~/current/src/share/mk] 698
 * $ for file in *.mk;do printf "%20s " $file;grep bin/ $file|wc;done|grep -v 0
 *           bsd.doc.mk        1       5      62
 *          bsd.info.mk        1       5      38
 *          bsd.kmod.mk        2       8      72
 *          bsd.port.mk       77     469    3887
 * 
 * Wolfram

This is intentional, at least for bsd.port.mk.  We have gotten lots of 
reports of bsd.port.mk failing because the user didn't have /usr/sbin
or /sbin in the search path.

I'm sorry it doesn't work for you, but we have to take care of the
majority first.... ;<

Satoshi



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