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On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:55:07PM -0700, Bryan D. Thomas wrote:
>>>Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it.
>>
>>That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake
>>based.  The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as
>>well, but none of them are relevant to Cygwin and are not built; the
>>makefiles create this directory anyway, regardless if anything is
>>installed into it.
>
>Yaakov, you are not allowed to patch the Makefile to avoid this?

He could if he wanted to but I don't see any reason not to install
things into /sbin if that's where they're going under linux and the
creation of /usr/sbin is a trivial thing and, IMO, not really worth any
time exploring how to fix.

cgf

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