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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:59:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: review request: INSTALL_* aliases in bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960812075751.20581A-100000@bdd.net>
In-Reply-To: <199608121005.DAA02891@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote:

> I noticed that there are a lot of cp commands in the *-install targets 
> in ports' Makefiles.  What do you guys think about adding these to
> bsd.port.mk so that we can just say
> 
> do-install:
> 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/coolprog ${PREFIX}/bin
> 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/coolprog.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
> .if !defined(NOMANCOMPRESS)
>  :
> 
> instead of the long-but-correct alternatives, and, um, the bazillion
> may-be-short-but-incorrect alternatives?

I'm all for it.  Anything to make ports gracefully go from one revision to
the next is a good thing.

--
j.

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