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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:02:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        src@chen.ml.org
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: full path of sysctl in bsd.port.mk?
Message-ID:  <199812020402.UAA16145@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199812012147.QAA32598@chen.ml.org> (message from Source Code on Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:47:01 -0500 (EST))

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 * From: Source Code <src@chen.ml.org>

You changed your name? :)

 * Usually I build ports as a regular user (only install them as root), so sysctl
 * is not in my path and the build fails with the message,
 * 
 * sysctl: not found
 * "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 410: warning: "sysctl -n kern.osreldate" returned non-zero status

The only reason it's not using the full path is because it can be in
different places (/sbin or /usr/sbin) depending on the version of the
OS and I didn't want to put too many .if checks in bsd.port.mk.

But I recently discovered that running /usr/sbin/sysctl in an ELF-ized 
system without a.out libs could cause pretty nasty errors too.  I'll
put in the check and call it with the full pathname in the next
bsd.port.mk commit.

Satoshi

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