Subject: Re: avoiding install death
To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 12:28:08
> You haven't looked recently, have you? /usr/src/Makefile says
No - because haven't been able to sup Makefile for ages. SUP kept
reporting fileserver it can't download src/Makefile and quite a few
others - everything else sup'd ok, permissions etc at both end seem
correct. This is from my local mirror btw. Nothing seemed to fix it,
so I just gave up and went back to tar_files - which don't contain
src/Makefile.
The src/Makefile I have has a similar rule in it - but commented out.
>> Personally I prefer my approach as it is more generally useful.
>
> Matter of opinion. I usually prefer that make install just install
> things, without trying to be smart about creating directories where it
> thinks things should go. In particular, I would _really_ hate it if it
> gets an incorrect idea of where I want to install things and goes wild
> making directories all over my filesystem as a result.
True. A correct solution would allow both of us a choice.
--sjg