On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:57:48PM -0700, Caffeinate The World wrote:
> i finally was able to succeed in 'make build' to DESTDIR. after that
> was done, i 
> 
>   cd DESTDIR
>   pax -rw -pe . /
> 
> the copy process was fine. then i tried some commands and almost every
> thing coredumped. from 'ls' to 'more' etc.

Hrm.

Why do this?

Why not just do a make release and install from those tarballs as
usual?

(I find overwriting files on a live system has bitten me more times
than not...)

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       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net