On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, John Polstra wrote:
> > > It's source-dir is called "xinstall" btw.
> > Why is the source called "xinstall"?
>
> To avoid colliding with the standard make target "install". If we
> had utilities named "all", "depend", and "clean" we'd have to do the
> same thing for them.
Mhmmm... Isn't this something that .PHONY target is supposed to handle?
Andrzej Bialecki
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