Don't use a dot in a chown command. In fact, don't use any commands

except `install' at install time.  Don't build things at install time.
Don't hide the build steps using @.  Install with mode ${NOBINMODE}
instead of 444.

Poor source layout made this harder than it should have been.  E.g.,
a suffix rule can't be used because of the subdirectories, and a
new makefile per subdirectory (i.e.m per data file) would be excessive.
See /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale for a better organisation.

usr.bin/ee/Makefile

@@ -2,22 +2,26 @@ CFLAGS+= -DCAP -DHAS_NCURSES -DHAS_UNISTD -DHAS_STDARG -DHAS_STDLIB \
 	 -DHAS_CTYPE -DHAS_SYS_IOCTL -DHAS_SYS_WAIT -DSLCT_HDR
 
 PROG=	ee
-SRCS=	ee.c
 LINKS=	${BINDIR}/ee ${BINDIR}/ree
 MLINKS=	ee.1 ree.1
 DPADD=	${LIBNCURSES} ${LIBMYTINFO}
 LDADD=	-lncurses -lmytinfo
 
 LANGS=	en_US.ISO_8859-1 fr_FR.ISO_8859-1 de_DE.ISO_8859-1
+FILES=	${LANGS:S/$/.ee.cat/}
+CLEANFILES+=	${FILES}
 
-afterinstall:
-.for l in ${LANGS}
-	@${ECHO} "Install ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${l}/ee.cat"
-	@rm -f ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${l}/ee.cat
-	@gencat -new ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${l}/ee.cat ${.CURDIR}/nls/${l}/ee.msg
-	@chown ${BINOWN}.${BINGRP} ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${l}/ee.cat
-	@chmod 444 ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${l}/ee.cat
+all: ${FILES}
+
+.for lang in ${LANGS}
+${lang}.ee.cat: ${.CURDIR}/nls/${lang}/ee.msg
+	gencat -new ${.TARGET} ${.ALLSRC}
 .endfor
 
+beforeinstall:
+.for lang in ${LANGS}
+	${INSTALL} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${NOBINMODE} \
+	    ${lang}.ee.cat ${DESTDIR}${NLSDIR}/${lang}/ee.cat
+.endfor
 
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>