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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        mark@grondar.za, peter@wemm.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, david@catwhisker.org
Subject:   Re: It's baaack... -- ("make: don't know how to make copies. Stop")
Message-ID:  <200110232013.f9NKD7T42890@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110231943.f9NJhTY15110@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:43:29 +0100
>From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>

>Actually, it is possible for there to be no copies: target in
>src/share/examples/<something>. The copies: (actually copies::)
>target is built up in a .for loop that may be empty.

>The fix is a dummy copies:: target.

In the mean time, my laptop got through today's -CURRENT installworld
OK, after trying the 2nd of Peter's suggested aproaches (paraphrasing,
cd /usr/src/share && cd `make -V .OBJDIR` && rm -fr *; he also suggested
ensuring that the target of the 2nd "cd" wasn't something of value first).

Cheers,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to
advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal
amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product.

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