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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Once _again_ make world fails building ss library
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:38:02 UTC
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

>Nick Sayer wrote:
>> Make world fails with an error while building the ss library. It fails
>> trying to include <ss/ss.h>. Since -I. is on the compile command line,
>> mkdir ss ; ln -s ../ss.h ss is a workaround, but is this EVER going to
>> be fixed (it just happened while I was building 960501-SNAP)?

>I've been building the world since 2.0 and I've *never* seen this
>happen! :-)  There must be something strange about your system.

I finally figured it out. /usr/include/ss was a _file_, not a directory.
The upshot of this is that install will happily overwrite that file
in turn with each of the things it is supposed to stick in the ss
include directory. A whiner might call this a bug, but I have far
bigger fish to fry. :-)

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