From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 28 4:22:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0039037B718; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 04:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2SCM3105744; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:22:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:22:03 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20010328152203.A2570@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Rodney W. Grimes" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200103271514.f2RFEot88911@freefall.freebsd.org> <200103271739.JAA91925@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103271739.JAA91925@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:39:06AM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:39:06AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > ru 2001/03/27 07:14:50 PST > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/xinstall Makefile > > Log: > > Do not override the ``install'' target. > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.14 +2 -2 src/usr.bin/xinstall/Makefile > > Why is it any better to override an undocumented internal .mk > target instead? > Because it does not need a special kludge for maninstall. realinstall is only undocumented because bsd.README is "seriously out of date". Alternatively, BINDIR can be overridden to /usr/bin/install. But this is still a hack. I am going to introduce the PROGNAME knob modeled after NetBSD that would allow this sort of things. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message