From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 19 00:30:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA22985 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:30:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22891 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:29:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA16984; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:25:45 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA24968; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:25:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA06787; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:20:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611190820.JAA06787@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Are broken ports useful? To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:20:33 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Nov 18, 96 09:47:14 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)