Subject: Re: build.sh breakage?
To: Brian A. Seklecki <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com>
From: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/27/2007 09:31:02
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:22:08PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:36:22PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> >=20
> > >  	/home/paul/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:\
> > >  	/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin: \
> > >  	/usr/local/sbin:.
> >=20
> > I once had my life (well, life of my livelihood) threatened by a
> > very .....imposing (politically correct) female system administrator for
> > putting "." in my $PATH.  =20
> >=20
> > It not being present overrides one of the natural security mechanisms
> > present in UNIX-like environments.
>=20
> Actually it usually does no harm as the last item, and the scripts
> shouldn't barf at that.

The problem is that someone recently had build issue because the "mv"=20
which build.sh found (well one of the called make files) was for a target=
=20
device and not for the host system. Thus builds failed.

Take care,

Bill

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