Install brokenness
Ron Jarrell
jarrell at solaris.cc.vt.edu
Mon Jan 12 03:17:54 UTC 2004
At 10:14 PM 1/11/2004, Russ Allbery wrote:
>In fiddling about trying to figure out why INN 2.5 wasn't working, I
>discovered that if you install an older compile of INN over a newer
>version, it doesn't actually replace the binaries. This is due to the
>odd
>way our installation rules are written, as regular makefile
>dependencies.
>I've been wondering about that for a while, but hadn't actually
>encountered a case where it broke something.
yea, that happens to me. i threw together a script that just touches
everything before i do the install... After the first time I ended up
with a mishmash of two versions...
Having it just work will be nice.
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