Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Garrett Wollman writes:
> : <<On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:44 -0600, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> : > Hmmm, they look good to me.  Maybe Mark's system doesn't have group
> : > operator at gid 5.  That's one bad thing about the new DEVFS: it
> : > appears to enshrine things like this in the kernel...
> :
> : It would only take a small amount of Makefile magic to fix
> : this... something like:
> :
> : PASSWD?=      /etc/passwd
> : GROUP?=               /etc/group
> :
> : uidgid.h:     ${PASSWD} ${GROUP}
> :       perl -ne 'split(/:/); print ("#define\tUID_", uc($_[0]), "\t", \
> :                                    $_[2], "\n");' ${PASSWD} >${.TARGET}
> :       perl -ne 'split(/:/); print ("#define\tGID_", uc($_[0]), "\t", \
> :                                    $_[2], "\n");' ${GROUP} >>${.TARGET}
> :
> : ...add this to <bsd.kmod.mk> and include "uidgid.h" as necessary in
> : source files.
> 
> Hmmm, I like it...  But it does suffer from one problem that we
> already have enough of in our tree.  The build on one system, install
> on another problem.  It would be better than the current situtation.

Add ${DESTDIR} to PASSWD and GROUP?  That will help.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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