From 10aeeb61e6911dbcebb4529346ccc5b37714709c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:42:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added the warning that gawk's make uninstall will do a rm -rf /usr/bin/* if the libexec dir override is applied git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1779 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 7 +++++++ chapter05/gawk-inst.xml | 10 ++++++++++ chapter06/gawk-inst.xml | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 447fbb6a4..05518d343 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ +April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 - +Gawk: Added a warning to never run make uninstall on +the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to rm -rf +/usr/bin/* because we override the libexec directory definition to /usr/bin + March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script. diff --git a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml index bdbb93a5a..7d10b61cd 100644 --- a/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter05/gawk-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ Installation of Gawk +Warning: do NOT run make uninstall on this +package if you apply the sed fix to change the +libexec directory definition. The +uninstall rule in the Makefile +file runs a command like rm -rf +<libexecdir>/* Since we change the libexec directory to /usr/bin it'll run rm -rf +/usr/bin/* + When installing Gawk using glibc-2.1.x on your base system, it may be necessary to use a fix to prevent a variable name conflict. The following commands can be used in this case. Note that these commands diff --git a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml index de807a849..40d0dbdd7 100644 --- a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ Installation of Gawk +Warning: do NOT run make uninstall on this +package if you apply the sed fix to change the +libexec directory definition. The +uninstall rule in the Makefile +file runs a command like rm -rf +<libexecdir>/* Since we change the libexec directory to /usr/bin it'll run rm -rf +/usr/bin/* + Install Gawk by running the following commands: cp awklib/Makefile.in awklib/Makefile.in.backup &&