[Mailman-Developers] make finish?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:39, John Dennis wrote:

> Is this Makefile cruft or should this be executed? Note that
> mailman-2.1.5/Makefile.in removes the "other" read permission on
> $prefix/archives/private, but it leaves group read/write. This suggests
> to me that $prefix/cgi-bin/private with setgid and arbitrary owner (e.g.
> without running the "finish") is fine and thus leads me to the
> conclusion the finish target is cruft.
> 
> Is this right?

Yes.  I don't remember why "make finish" was added, but it's probably
cruft left over from when it was possible to run MM2 from the source
directory.  I briefly skimmed the CVS logs, but they didn't provide much
of a clue.

All the 'finish' targets can probably be ignored or removed.

-Barry

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