make-install-init fail

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>> make install-init
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d -o root -g root /etc/rc.d/
>> install: root: Invalid argument
> 
> There is no "root" group on *BSD and assuming that there is is a fatal 
> mistake (this isn't a POSIX requirement).
> 

Being anal about POSIX is just stupid. A lot of things that work fine on
very nearly all unices are not in POSIX.

> There should be case/ifdef code in that makefile to check the platform.
> 

Actually, the code should be changed to
cp $the_init_file $the_init_dir
chown 0:0 $init_dir/$init_file || chown 0.0 $init_dir/$init_file || :
chmod 0755 $init_dir/$init_file || :

which will work very nearly everywhere and at least make the intent of
the make target totally obvious to absolutely everyone, so that the admin
can then run the 2-3 required commands him/herself.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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