Re: small enhancement idea for 'make installworld' et al.

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 21:00:28 -0700
Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:06:26 -0400
> David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think a warning message would be fine here if the user that
> > just typed installworld wasn't root. But the Makefile doesn't
> > need to take any action though based on that.
> 
> OK, I'll work on making it a warning message tonight.  Thanks for the
> explanation.

OK, modified patch to make 'installworld' et al warn if the destination
directory is not writeable by the current user, is available at the same
location:

  http://catseye.webhop.net/DragonFlyBSD/patch/Makefile.inc1.diff

-Chris