> From: Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The Schily makefile system has a rule to first create the target dir if
> missing and then using the Schily install-sh to copy the file to newdir/file.
>
> Maybe one problem is that people who are writing their own makefiles
> - from scratch and again for every new project - will not eliminate such mistakes
> which may easily be fixed if you use a structured system like the schily makefile
> system. If you encounter a problem in a structured system, you just fix the
> only place where the bug is located and all users of the code will use
> the new better code.
If you mean that it creates the directory without asking, that's not
always the desired behaviour, either. In the original case, it was a bug
which crept in, and which seems to have snbuck away in the night, since
it works now.
I guess not knowing that a trailing slash will indicate the target
must be a directory is more common than I thought, since a number of
experienced users have mailed me to say "that's neat" or something less
complimentary. I didn't think that was a wizard trick, it's old. I
called MKS on that in their first release, and after some discussion
they did change it to work "like UNIX."
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-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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