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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, 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? I ask
> this sincere question because I have just become a package maintainer.
> If this is a rule, I want to avoid breaking it.

You are, and you should (in such cases).  There are usually
Cygwin-specific patches for a few files in the package (at the very least,
there is one that adds the Cygwin-specific README and setup.hint to the
CYGWIN-PATCHES subdirectory in the source).

I'm sure Yaakov meant that he'll patch it when he next gets around to it,
but in the meantime felt compelled to explain where the current directory
structure came from.
	Igor
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