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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:36:42 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, gryphon@healer.com, hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com
Subject:   Re: ports startup scripts
Message-ID:  <199509272236.PAA11197@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509272153.RAA22142@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 27, 95 05:53:28 pm

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> Are the any other problems that the Makefile method does not solve/address?

The case of the missing dependency.

If I have package B installed and it depends on package A, but package
A is not installed, then a make will fail at generation of the package
A startup, when instead it should fail the generation of the package B
startup (but still generate a valid rc file).

This was my point about installed-but-not-configure packages.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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