Jan Depner <eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> More importantly though, something in the "make prefix=/usr configure"
> destroys /dev/null on my system. At first I couldn't figure out what
> was causing it because I was working on some other stuff but I tested it
> and that is definitely the case. I did the configure as root because
> the next step is make, make install, but that is no excuse for smoking
> /dev/null. I think it's trying to redirect output to /dev/null
> somewhere and it is replacing the character special device with a file
> (at least that's what's left when it gets finished). It's easy for me
> to fix since I've seen this kind of thing at work before with the FLEXLM
> license manager (go figure - you pay cash money and it still frags your
> system) but if a newbie does the build as root it's going to hose his
> system and he won't be a happy camper. Someone needs to figure out
> what's going on there and fix it.
Sounds like it's time to convert to GNU autoconf and automake.
They suck, but they don't destroy anyone's system.
-- joqReceived on Tue Jan 4 16:15:12 2005
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