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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk
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Satoshi Asami writes:

>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.... ;<

$ egrep /bin/ *.mk |wc -l
      73    

$ egrep /sbin/ *.mk |wc -l
       6   

$ egrep /sbin/ *.mk    
bsd.kmod.mk:    /sbin/modload -o ${KMOD} -e${KMOD} ${PROG}
bsd.kmod.mk:    /sbin/modunload -n ${KMOD}
bsd.port.mk:MD5?=                       /sbin/md5
bsd.port.mk:MTREE_CMD?= /usr/sbin/mtree
bsd.port.mk:PKG_CMD?=           /usr/sbin/pkg_create
bsd.port.mk:            if /sbin/ldconfig -r | grep -q -e "-l$$lib"; then \

Wolfram