From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 10:41:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12979 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdev.blaze.net.au (sdev.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12924 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidn@localhost) by sdev.blaze.net.au (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA05394; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 03:38:07 GMT Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 03:38:06 +0000 () From: David Nugent To: Gary Chrysler cc: moos@degnet.baynet.de, Benjamin Lewis , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Quick Question In-Reply-To: <324139C9.748F@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: >Sorry I don't buy this LAZY admin stuff!! Nor do I. >We all get busy (in a hurry) and forget the little things! >Having to type ./ to execute a currentdir prog makes you >stop and think! > >IMHO lazy people have '.' in thier path! What's more annoying is building a program with a Makefile that assumes that '.' is in the path. If you come across such insanity - even if the program is not intended to be built by root - then send a note to the author/maintainer pointing it out. I should also mention that browsing a Makefile and any scripts used by it is Good Practice. And, of course, noone actually runs make for anything but an "install" as root, do they? :-) (Ok, so a make world on FreeBSD is different - so shoot me :)). David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn