Subject: Re: make distrib-dirs doesn't stop on mtree error
To: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/08/2000 17:07:35
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Julian Coleman wrote:

> My question is - why doesn't the make fail when mtree fails?  It's trivial to
> change, but why is it the way it is?

Perhaps because this way you can at least make an attempt at creating
a tree and installing the files, even if you aren't root?

cjs
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