On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:55:07PM -0700, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: >>>Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it. >> >>That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake >>based. The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as >>well, but none of them are relevant to Cygwin and are not built; the >>makefiles create this directory anyway, regardless if anything is >>installed into it. > >Yaakov, you are not allowed to patch the Makefile to avoid this?
He could if he wanted to but I don't see any reason not to install things into /sbin if that's where they're going under linux and the creation of /usr/sbin is a trivial thing and, IMO, not really worth any time exploring how to fix. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
