Re: Serious bug in cofigure script for Aiksaurus-1.0

From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 11:46:31 EDT

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    Hi,

    This is not serious.

    fjf explained that the scripts automatically remove core files if found.
    Since there's the core directory and removing core is not done
    recursively (-r) then rm does not remove (but display a rather
    frightfull message) and neither fails.

    It would probably be advisable to rename that directory, but not
    essential.

    Martin, are you sure that what's breking the build is that? Because I've
    had no problems...

    Rui

    On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:37, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > Funny. Whenver I try to 'rm <directory>' it says
    > something like:
    >
    > rm: '<directory>' is a directory
    >
    > and fails to remove it. rm isn't supposed to remove
    > the directory - rmdir is. Oh, and FJF is in Sweeden
    > right now. This probably won't be addressed within the
    > next few days unless I look into it tonight in-between
    > packing for GUADEC and finishing our talk. We can
    > probably get around this by renaming the directory to
    > 'base' or something similar.
    >
    > Dom
    >
    > --- Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
    > wrote:
    > > Hi FJF,
    > > I just attempted to build aiksaurus to for the
    > > abiword plugin.
    > >
    > > Aiksaurus has a rather unfortunately named directory
    > > called "core"!
    > >
    > > The configure script also has the following line:
    > >
    > > rm -f core core.* *.core &&
    > >
    > > So after having nicely configure the core directory
    > > with Makefiles and
    > > whatnot the configure script happily deletes it on
    > > my RH 9 box :-)
    > >
    > > Removing the the "rm core....." line
    > >
    > > fixes this and enables the build to procede.
    > >
    > > Do I get a mention in credits.txt for Aiksaurus now?
    > >
    > > Cheers :-)
    > >
    > > Martin
    > >
    > > --
    > > Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
    > > University of Melbourne
    > >
    >
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