Re: [Slashcode-development] Makefile problems on FreeBSD

[Ask S. G. <cl...@sl...>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:02:07 -0800, Eric Dannewitz said:

> In my efforts to try to get Bender to update via cvs, I have noticed
>  that there are some incompatibility problems.
>  
>  Lines 145-147
>   $(CP) -ruv plugins/* $(SLASH_PREFIX)/plugins/
>   # Now all other themes
>   $(CP) -ruv themes/* $(SLASH_PREFIX)/themes
>  
>  FreeBSD 4.2's cp command has no provisions for the -u switch, and fails.
>  
>  I also was having problems with lines 131-133,
>    if [ -f "$$f.bak" ]; then \
>     rm $$f; mv $$f.bak $$f; \
>    fi; \
>  Which would error out on a make install, removing these lines made
>  things better, but then I encountered the cp -ruv thing.......
>  

And this is another reason I wish I had a FreeBSD box or even a Solaris box to
test these things. 

Eric,

Thanks for the bug reports on the Makefile. I'll just have to bite the bullet
and make that section a little more intelligent.

- Cliff