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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C news: file ownership and running build 47386 times
Message-ID: <3054@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 18 Nov 89 14:17:08 GMT
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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I've run through this stuff so many times it's confusing me.

Which user id should unshar the C news sources?
Which user id should own the programs?
Which user id should run build?

I ran into problems doing doit.bin as myself, and specifying -i didn't
help: it got so far, then blew up because it couldn't change a file.
Then I su'd to root, ran find . -exec chown bin {} \; , and tried it
again...and again...and again...only to have this %&^$*$^%#$#%@
Microbug...er...Microport shell dump core while trying to build
doit.bin. Argh!

On top of all this, I've lost count of the times I've had to abort build
because I forgot to tell it that I don't have mkdir(), or that my chown
is /bin/chown, or... Can't build be set up to remember what it did last
time? (Yes, Henry, I'll make the changes if you'd like.)

Finally, when I find a copy of dbz 1.9 (I thought I'd saved it, but
can't find it now), am I going to have to go through all of this again?

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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