I've really gotta wonder how much the build should protect against that.

A "make build" or "make release" should produce identical output for a given
run no matter what my host system may look like. 

Honestly...How many people do you think are changing the uid of ntpd/games/?

James

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>On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:45:21AM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
>  | Can anyone think of a reason not to change etc's distrib-dirs rule to
>  | invoke mtree with -N ${.CURDIR}? (Luke added this recently and lets an
>  | alternate pw/group file set than the ones in /etc guide mtree).
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>  | This would remove the annoying "don't have ntpd in my 1.5 password file when
>  | attempting to cross build" bugs.
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>It might bite people who change the uids of default users when
>building into "/".  That's why I didn't make this the default
>when I added the support.
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>I can't see a problem with doing this for DESTDIR builds,
>especially UNPRIVED DESTDIR builds.
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>Luke.
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