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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [2.2 ALPHA] Missing files Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:38:49 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32B801F9.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <32B0ED79.41C67EA6@servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32746 Shawn Carey wrote: > When running "make install" in a directory that has mult-file info > docuemnts > (ie gdb.info-1, gdb.info-2, etc), only the first info file of the set > gets > installed. The attached diff to bsd.info.mk fixes this problem. This appears to have evolved in a different direction in post-2.2 ALPHA; now the info files are no longer split at all. :-) Given that few people are now downloading info files over 2400 baud modems, this makes some sense (and dealing with split info files was hell on the viewer program!). > I assume this is not the best channel for submitting fixes. Is there > someone I should mail this to instead? Yes, in the future please use the send-pr(1) command (or visit http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html) to submit a proper bug report. USENET is probably the very worst place to report bugs if you want something actually done about them. :-) [and no cracks from the peanut gallery about how even a PR# is no guarantee that a problem will be looked into - we do the best we can with the resources available, and with the PR system it's at least *recorded* somewhere so you can shame us properly with the ancient PR# when you come back to complain 6 months later. :-) A very reasonable percentage of PRs are also closed within 24 hours of being reported, believe it or not.] -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project