Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.doc.mk bsd.docb.mk bsd.info.mk bsd.init.mk bsd.lib.mk bsd.libnames.mk bsd.man.mk bsd.nls.mk bsd.obj.mk bsd.own.mk bsd.prog.mk bsd.sgml.mk bsd.subdir.mk sys.mk

On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:05:18AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2002, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 22:00:05 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: The attached patch fixes it for me. I'm sure someone can come up with a cleaner way of fixing the problem. It

make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

Often I hear people complain about one lacking in FreeBSD's make(1), if an error is encountered in a Makefile, we only get the base of its name: what is passed to ReadMakefile(). This is confusing for people trying to debug Makefiles, I am told, and really, there's no reason not to always give

Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:21:59PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: Why do people think that a realpath is always available? Because the manual page doesn't say it isn't. What is wrong with just extending using pwd? That won't handle . and .. and relative paths spanning symbolic links, which you

Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:34:28PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: I even can't buildworld on another machine without taking care of realpath. If I don't enshure that the source has the same realpath on the machine to run installworld as it had on the machine where I did the buildworld it

Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: I'm ``blindly'' using the only answer we have to a question: how can I get an absolute (thus unique) path to an object in the filesystem. Forget it - it's not possible with FreeBSD (see below). I'm just a bit frustrated about

Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:47:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: Look at getcwd_logical() in pwd.c Aha - but that does mean trusting $PWD. The only thing that can keep track of where we started vs. where we cd to is the shell, and so we'd have to trust what it says PWD is. A possible

Re: make(1) patch to ReadMakefile() to use realpath(3)

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:21:49PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Bernd Walter wrote: Why do people think that a realpath is always available? Because it would be really convenient if we could program without having to remember on line 17 what we did on line 3, because we have really, really

Re: Infinite 'make' loops while building ports

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:46:01AM -0700, Shizuka Kudo wrote: You're right. The only reason it didn't show up several days before is that v 1.58 added the real path to MAKEFILE as mentioned in the commit log: Try with the current make(1) sources. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | C, MIPS, POSIX,

Re: Seeking OK to commit KSE MIII

of thumb. Furthermore, it'd be nice if as people made stylistic changes for outside projects they committed them to the central repository, where applicable. Anyway, I'm out of paint. Good day. -- J. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD: The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Seeking OK to commit KSE MIII

. You missed the point entirely. Go back and READ WHAT I WROTE. I made it pretty damn clear. I was showing a parallel set of thoughts and points of my own. -- J. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD: The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: getcwd() failed ...

code 2 Thanks ... Update sh. -- J. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD: The Power To Serve I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically. -- George W. Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C

ps(1) -o peculiarity in CURRENT

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Re: ps(1) -o peculiarity in CURRENT

* From Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:13:21PM -0700, J. Mallett wrote: Aphex% ps -ouser= ?? jmallett jmallett jmallett I remember to see something like that when a kernel dependent command, such as ps, is out of sync w/ the running

Re: ps seems broken

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Re: patches for [x]install

of the message -- J. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD: The Power To Serve I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically. -- George W. Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001

Re: patches for [x]install

* From Steven G. Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. Mallett said: * From Steven G. Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first patch fixes install(1). The reamining patches correctly document the breakage of rev 1.55 of xinstall.c I should have stated that if the first patch isn't acceptable

Re: patches for [x]install

* From Steven G. Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. Mallett said: * From Steven G. Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. Mallett said: No. The third patch is correct (see below); otherwise I could set INSTALL to install -C QED. And I could set BINOWN to something bogus. Don't protect

Re: Perl wrapper bad

/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/a/pkg/bin: \ /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/gnu/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/a/pkg/sbin Can you spot all the places Perl might be there? Can you now tell me which one a ``wrapper'' for the 'real' Perl should look? And what about where autoconf scripts should find perl? -- J

Re: one or two errors in installworld

of INSTALL in /etc/make.conf. Andrew Lankford To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message -- J. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED]FreeBSD: The Power To Serve I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding