Thanks for your quick response Jeremy - I shall certainly download the help files to check them out, but yes, the main point I was trying to get across is that the current behaviour for 'make installhelp' (whoops I typoed in the topic) is not good, and could possibly be used maliciously (you never know).
Thanks Steven On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > >When attempting to install helpfiles (hey, I was curious at the changes > >with bind(8) because of the keys.c big rewrite), helpfiles do not exist, > >so line 185 of epic4-1.1.7/Makefile is excutied incorrectly, copying the > >contents of epic4-1.1.7/ (including subdirectories) to > >/usr/local/share/epic/help. > > The help files are available as a separate package, and can also be fetched > by way of CVS. It is certainly not acceptable for 'make installhelp' to > fail in this manner and you are quite correct that some action should be > taken to change its behavior. But 'make installhelp' is provided for those > who may download the separate help package, and put it into the help/ > directory, and want to have it automatically installed for them. > > An excellent place to look up help right now is > http://www.epicsol.org/~kitambi/help > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
