built early enough to always be installed by the `includes' target
in /usr/src/Makefile. This is supposed to be handled by not
installing it if it doesn't exist. However, a stale, uninstallable
copy sometimes exists in the source directory, and the existence
test sometimes found the wrong copy.
specified in the top level Makefiles.
Previously I missed dozens of Makefiles that skip the install after
using `cmp -s' to decide that the install isn't necessary.
when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists."
Today I discovered that rebuilding /usr/include completely from scratch
doesn't work, because the libss Makefile tries to install headers into
/usr/include/ss, which 'make includes' does not create. The result is that
the libss Makefile plants the header files in /usr/include as individual
files called 'ss,' with the second one overwriting the first, and the
third one overwriting the second. So instead of a directory called
/usr/include/ss, you end up with just one file called /usr/include/ss with
only the last header file in it. Check out /usr/include/ss on freefall
and you'll see what I mean.
I've modified the beforeinstall target in the libss Makefile to check
for the presence of the ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/lbss directory and to
create it if it isn't already there. Hopefully I did it right.
1) Link against object directory version of libcom_err.so.
2) Don't try to install ss_err.h if we haven't made it yet. It's not
on the critical path for `make world' at this point.
