X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Bryan D. Thomas" <cinder_bdt AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:  Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package
Date:  Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:55:07 -0700
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <e1sini$29q$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <20060414183046 DOT fb30e530d17747c2b054d625b8945d88 DOT e0662cc7b8 DOT wbe AT email DOT secureserver DOT net> <4441B33F DOT 1010208 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

>> 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? I ask this 
sincere question because I have just become a package maintainer.  If this 
is a rule, I want to avoid breaking it.

Best,
Bryan 




--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/