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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: FreeBSD-2.0R: cnews install problem - HELP
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Message-ID: <D2oBqD.A00@luva.lb.bawue.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 22:27:49 GMT
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The ported cnews package from FreeBSD-2.0 CDROM uses the
following Makefile entries for installing the package:

 su -m bin -c make -f makefile install
 su -m news -c make -f makefile setup
 su -m bin -c make -f makefile ...

FBSD doesn't support the -c flag (execute command) for su :-(
(BTW, the 4.4BSD manuals too don't allow this flag :-( again :-)

Is there any cute way to avoid su'ing to bin/news and doing the
work by hand (the line above calls a plethora of subdirs and other
makefiles - something I wouldn't like to do if not absolutely
necessary).

Bye,
-- 
Michael Giegerich                              migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de