Curt Sampson wrote:

> 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?

This is correct - when I added the UNPRIVELEGED stuff to allow "make
build" as a normal user, I don't think (from memory) that there was a
flag to mtree to say create the directory tree but don't bomb if you
can't set the owner.

Simon.