> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> > Good analysis deleted...
> >
> > > src/usr.bin/xinstall could probably have been named src/usr.bin/install,
> > > but PROG has to be xinstall regardless. I guess they kept the two as
> > > xinstall for consistancy and in case there were other gotcha's like this.
> >
> > But you forgot what happens if you have a ``file'' named install:
> >
> > cd /tmp
> > mkdir install
> > make install
> >
> > Now you know the real reason the directory is called ``xinstall''.
>
> Ahh yes, of course. 'cd src/usr.bin; make install' would fail. :-)
Actually it use to silently do the wrong thing... nothing at all that is :-)
It doesn't anymore since the .mk system has a special internal target
that deals with the fact that src/usr.bin is simply a directory that has to
be iterated over:
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{101}# cd /usr/src/usr.bin
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{102}# mkdir install
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{103}# make install
===> apply
install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 apply /usr/bin
install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 apply.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1
===> at
install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 4555 at /usr/bin
...
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