From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 16:37:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA26446 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:37:39 -0700 Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.97.216]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA26440 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:37:35 -0700 Received: (from kargl@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA07416; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:36:20 -0700 From: Steven G Kargl Message-Id: <199504042336.QAA07416@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: new install(1) utility To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504042309.RAA07852@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 05:09:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 806 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First, Rod, Nate, Terry, You guys type (cut/paste) way too fast, and I thought I drank too much coffee. According to Nate Williams: > > The point I was trying to make was that *NOT* installing things if there > aren't any changes is a good thing to do, and shouldn't be limited to > just the include files. Let's bloat up install to do it. *grin* > Actually, the majority of the bloating of the executable is some added error handling. It's the price one pays for some sanity. My current source adds about 4k to the binary without trying to eliminate some redundant code. -- Steven G. Kargl | Phone: 206-685-4677 | Applied Physics Lab | Fax: 206-543-6785 | Univ. of Washington |---------------------| 1013 NE 40th St | FreeBSD 2.1-current | Seattle, WA 98105 |---------------------|