[KLUG Programming] Makefile Hell

[Adam Williams]

> > Ah yes, what fond memories.  Makefile Hell, just across the libtool
> > channel from the GCC Version Mania themepark.
> Not that you're bitter, or anything.... ;-)

Oh no,  we believe in unlimited forgiveness.  (Well, except for
Microsoft Employees, politicians from Texas or previously employed by
oil companies, anyone responsible for inventing voice mail, all the
people who vote on who gets the movie awards, SCO employees, ....)

> > man install ...
> > -D     create all leading components of DEST except the last, then copy
> >        SOURCE to DEST;  useful in the 1st forma
> > Perhaps
> Yes, but I tried desperately to fit it somewhere, and failed. The
> Makefile is too tightly written to just cram it in there.
> One question. Does Red Hat link kill to skill? The default package
> doesn't create that file.

[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /usr/bin/skill
-r-xr-xr-x    2 root     root        14268 Feb 20  2003 /usr/bin/skill
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /usr/bin/kill
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15260 Feb 18  2003 /usr/bin/kill
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /bin/kill
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7996 Feb 24  2003 /bin/kill
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /bin/skill
ls: /bin/skill: No such file or directory
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /sbin/skill
ls: /sbin/skill: No such file or directory
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ls -l /sbin/kill
ls: /sbin/kill: No such file or directory
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$