Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] possibly serius bug

[Mark Brand]

Hi Anguelos,

> #cd /opt
> #hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env
> #cd mingw_cross_env
> #make
Sorry to hear about your misfortune with /usr. I doubt that the commands 
you listed could have caused this, but I almost choked when I read this:

> /opt/mingw_cross_env$ sudo make clean
>
> the result is my real /usr/ directory was deleted. once I realised I 
> prefered to go with a fresh install.
> I am working on the latest mint-debian amd64

Why did you "sudo"? It's asking for big trouble to work with 
mingw-cross-env as root. Although it shouldn't cause any damge, all it 
takes is one misbehaving or misconfigured package to mess up your system 
directories. When you work as regular user, your system directories are 
protected by the file permissions.

I had a quick look at the "clean" target in the makefile, but I do not 
see how it could have deleted /usr.

> some requirement of ffmpeg had a non updated md5sum so I simply 
> removed the dependency .mk file as well as ffmpeg .mk file to go on 
> with the make file. 

Right now, the checksums and URLs in the development version are fine, 
so please try again!

Also, if you get new insights into what wiped our /usr, please let us know.

Mark