Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 23:56:26 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, phk@ref.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NOTICE: If you care, speak now! Message-ID: <9504050556.AA27763@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504050407.WAA09298@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 10:07:41 pm
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> > 3) This is no more of a change than the changes to "install" that are being > > so widely advocated. > > Huh? The install change affects *one* utility, but the changes you are > advocating effect the entire build process, and from the sounds of it > every Makefile. And, as a rebuttal, even though the install changes are > to one tool, because of the significance of the tool those changes might > not make it into the release. Oh, ho, he's got you, Nate! That one utility is used to install all the binaries on the system. 8-). What Richard say he wants to change will affect how you build every binary on the system (he's already said it's mostly .mk files). I'm with Jordan on this one (but you should still add -p to install for suid programs and header file "builds" no matte what happens). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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