From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 7 1: 2:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0460D37B403; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15640; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:02:38 +1000 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:03:17 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Steve Kargl Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro , Subject: Re: someone broke sendmail or install In-Reply-To: <20020606224931.B19711@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20020607174411.A14601-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:39:33PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > > I'm curious what Makefile's are supposed to use if not ${INSTALL}. The poorly named COPY variable can be (ab)used as a general install flags variable in most places. > Well, I personally believe that if install's -d option is > mutually exclusive of -bCcpSs, then install should reset > things instead of issue an error. I combinations of flags that don't make sense should just do something reasonable (usually, ignore the secondary flags). It's not even practical to document all the sensible combinations of flags for utilities with lots of flags. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message