On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote: > The problem, I strongly feel, is in the make program itself. > For some reason, the developers of the standard GNU build > sequence, that is "./configure, make, and make install," did > not choose to create an install log for the user after the final step. > The make program will simply write all files to disk without > creating any nice and neat record of what it is doing. Considering > the critical importance of knowing where all the files are located, > I can't understand why an install log provision has ever been left out.
Because that goes against the Unix developer mentality. Providing an "checkinstall" style functionality is not the purpose of make. According to the man page: "The purpose of the make utility is to determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them." What you mention as critical is only for critical for a LFSer. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:tus...@linuxfromscratch.org http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
