Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:20:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are broken ports useful? Message-ID: <199611190820.JAA06787@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961118214054.14204E-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu> from Chuck Robey at "Nov 18, 96 09:47:14 pm"
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As Chuck Robey wrote: > You're right, Joerg, but I am not sure it's completely valid, because I've > hit this error before (albeit not in the cim compiler, so it would bear > doublechecking). The problem has been, in the past, that the gnu-written > install script is using INSTALL_BINARY to install scripts. INSTALL_BINARY > (as I'm sure you'll agree) should be -s, but in a lot of gnu stuff, the > authors misuse the install variables. I've been against this fatality in our install(1) by that time, but i've been overruled by many others. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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