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Date:      Tue, 26 Dec 1995 10:28:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      James FitzGibbon <james@else.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion for target 'includes'
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.951226102327.5934A-100000@else.net>
In-Reply-To: <199512260616.WAA17601@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Mon, 25 Dec 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > Since mtree is already being called in a non-destructive manner, why not 
> > move it out of the .if-.endif clause and make it run whether CLOBBER is 
> > defined or not?  That would save a build from failing halfway through for 
> > stupid reasons.
> 
> This should have already occured when the ``make hierarchy'' was run as
> that includes an mtree run for /usr/include, see src/etc/Makefile distrib-dirs:.

Ah, so it does.  Well, that still leaves the problem of a file existing 
where mtree wants to make a directory.

What about a modification to mtree to have it fail if a file already 
exists and it's type doesn't match what is listed in the distfile?  That 
way if /usr/include/readline existed as a file and mtree wanted to create 
a directory called /usr/include/readline, it would by default fail, or 
with a switch delete the file and create the directory.

Comments?


j.



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