INSTALL's `make -n install' Doomed.

Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.sn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I've just started installing sn and have a comment on the INSTALL file
of 0.3.4a.

    3) Build it.  Type "make", then "make -n install" to see where
       things will be installed to; "make strip" optionally to strip the
       binaries.  "make clean" if you want to start over.

    4) Create the directories SNROOT and BINDIR, and the fifo:
         $ mkdir SNROOT
         $ mkdir BINDIR
         $ mknod -m 600 SNROOT/.fifo p
       Change the ownership of SNROOT and SNROOT/.fifo to the user and
       group for which you want sn to run (for instance, news.news).
       This is important: the ownership of SNROOT determines sn's
       running privileges.  Do NOT make the owner root.

The `make -n install' step of 3) fails if SNROOT and BINDIR don't exist,
and I don't create those until 4).

Personally, I'd stop making the install target dependent on the various
directories, i.e.

    $ grep install: Makefile
    install: all

Cheers,


Ralph.
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