Jan Depner <eviltwin69(a)cableone.net> writes:
More importantly though, something in the "make
prefix=/usr configure"
destroys /dev/null on my system. At first I couldn't figure out what
was causing it because I was working on some other stuff but I tested it
and that is definitely the case. I did the configure as root because
the next step is make, make install, but that is no excuse for smoking
/dev/null. I think it's trying to redirect output to /dev/null
somewhere and it is replacing the character special device with a file
(at least that's what's left when it gets finished). It's easy for me
to fix since I've seen this kind of thing at work before with the FLEXLM
license manager (go figure - you pay cash money and it still frags your
system) but if a newbie does the build as root it's going to hose his
system and he won't be a happy camper. Someone needs to figure out
what's going on there and fix it.
Sounds like it's time to convert to GNU autoconf and automake.
They suck, but they don't destroy anyone's system.
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joq