Subject: Re: chicken & egg problem w/libcurses?
To: Brad Parker <brad@fcr.com>
From: Theodore S. Kapela <kapela@sirius.poly.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/06/1994 21:15:38
On Wed, 06 Jul 94 11:38:39 EDT Brad Parker wrote:
>I found that libcurses wanted to install docs in a dir which did not exist
>yet (but would when I did a make - later - in /usr/src/share). It's a minor
>thing, but it may stop a clean build when done from scratch.
>
Try this:
setenv DESTDIR / (for csh)
DESTDIR=/; export DESTDIR (for sh)
then:
cd /usr/src/etc
make distrib-dirs
(Or you could run the mtree by hand. . .)
This will use mtree to install/fix directories (and the like) as
they are defined in /usr/src/etc/mtree/4.4BSD.dist.
*THEN* do your /usr/src/build.
BTW: It is generally a good idea to keep an eye on the files
in /usr/src/etc (and subdirs), and merge (do *not* blindly copy/install
them - check the differences first to be sure you don't lose local
customizations) them as needed. This includes the mtree subdir.
--
Theodore S. Kapela
Salomon Inc.
kapela@cyclone.sbi.com
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