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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: config deletes directory Message-ID: <D14J8I.F9C@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <D10xM6.G3s@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3d4nde$l2@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 19:24:18 GMT Lines: 22 In article <3d4nde$l2@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >> Removing old directory ../../compile/SPOTTISVAX >It does this now because the dependencies have never been 100% there, so >people were always hanging themselves by config'ing and making in a bogus >kernel directory [...] That's certainly true... > I suppose that it really should be: > a) a runtime flag > b) documented! :) And so is that! Thanks, -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough