[m-dev.] for review: warn about problems with `make install'

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Mar-1999, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Is it worth trying to provide something better than this?

That depends on who is volunteering ;-)

> If I understand 
> the installation process correctly, the existence of tmp_dir subdirectories 
> indicates a failed partial install,

Correct.

> and moving their contents back to the 
> parent directories is all that is required to restore things to a reasonable 
> state.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think so.

For now, I'll commit the documentation change.
If you want to have a go at a better fix, please go ahead.

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