On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Paul Howarth wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:22 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >>> One does not have to become root. > >>> If one does want the software > >>> installed as system software, > >>> do some testing first. > >>> Edit Makefile, > >>> removing any .SILENT targets. > >>> As an ordinary user, > >>> make -n prefix=/opt 'CP=cp -i' install 2>&1 | tee makeno.out > >> Same as above. This won't work in most cases. > > > > In this case, I'm not sure what "won't work" means. > > Do you mean that it won't give one a good idea whether > > something one doesn't want clobbered will get clobbered? > > Possibly. A large proportion of projects use "install" rather than "cp" > in their Makefile "install" targets. Is there a reason that the install commands wouldn't show up in the output or that they would be performed despite the -n flag? The 'CP=cp -i' would obviously be useless. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Demons after money? Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards any more." -- Rupert Giles
