[GRASSLIST:1295] Grass 5b10 make clean

Gordon Keith gordon.keith at marine.csiro.au
Mon Dec 18 19:59:08 EST 2000


I am trying to install Grass 5 beta 10 on an solaris intel box.

I was unable to install from the binaries so I downloaded the source and 
tried to build it.

I followed the instructions and did a "./configure" and "make install". 
The error.log contained a lot of entries so I decided to "make clean" 
and "make all" to try to track down the error messages.

Since make install requires root access I was doing this as root.

Can you image my horror when "make clean" flashed up:

/bin/sh -c "rm -rf /usr/local/bin/   2>/dev/null ; true"

and proceeded to do the same for a few other important directories such as:
/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/man, etc.

Can I suggest (in _*extrememly strong*_ terms) that wiping out the 
entire development environment (gcc, make etc) is NOT what most people 
mean by make clean.

Please make it a little safer for newbies to play with grass.

Regards
Gordon




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