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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 95 17:06:07 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: new install(1) utility
Message-ID:  <9504042306.AA21122@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504042152.OAA08510@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 4, 95 02:52:56 pm

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> You happened to have picked a bad example.  There are include files
> that this holds true for, and that is due not really having good
> support in the *.mk files for a includes: rule.  I would rather
> see the above type of thing folded into the .mk files and not
> muck with the install binary.

Exactly; it's an issue of not doing the wrong thing because you
have a dependency which stops you before you screw up.

> > It has nothing to do with make-like dependency capabilities.  With the
> > addition of that option, install now determines if it really needs to
> > install the files rather than blindly doing it no matter what.
> 
> I think Terry means this:
> 
> ${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}${PROG}: ${.OBJDIR}/${PROG}
> 	install ${COPY} ${STRIP} -m ${BINMODE} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${GINGRP} \
> 		${PROG} ${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}
> 
> install:	${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}${PROG}

Much cleaner than what I was thinking!  Thank you!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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