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Suggestion for /source/config/Imake.rules

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Aug 2 03:11:51 1991

Date: Fri, 2 Aug 91 00:10:52 -0700
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cats.UCSC.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU


Suggestion: Change the install rules so that they specify full paths.
That way, if a directory is missing, you'll find out about it right
away.  Otherwise, all the Imakefiles that try to install their
programs in that directory end up installing the program as the name
of the directory.  For example, if /bin/athena is missing and you try
to do "install -c -s getcluster /srvd/bin/athena", you end up with a
file called /srvd/bin/athena containing the getcluster binary.

  jik

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