> There has been some discussion recently about install -d -c features
> or lack thereof.

> As a point of discussion, and not a bug report or change request,
> would it not be appropriate to change most 'install' commands in the
> makefiles to 'install -d'.  In this way the makes would create the
> required target directory structure, and only those directories that
> are required. As a result it would be much more convenient to allow
> both the -d and -c directives on a single line.

At one time, many of the makefiles had "install -d" commands in the 
install targets so that directories were created.  This was changed when 
we found that the "mtree" files (in src/etc/mtree/*) conflicted with the 
user and group ownership or file permissions set in the makefiles.  Since 
it is easier to maintain one set of mtree files compared to several 
hundred makefiles, we decided that mtree would be used to create any
needed directories.

All you should need to do to create missing directories and to fix 
incorrect ownership and permissions is to make "distrib-dirs" (or something 
like that) in ~/src/etc.

As to why I think "install -d -c" is a bad idea: How often will the
directory and the file you are installing share exactly the same ownership
and permissions?  And how difficult is it to and an additional line to the
makefile so it is clear that both a directory is to be created and a file 
is to be installed?

	--jtc