From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 18:00:21 EDT
On 12 Jun 2003, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 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.
>
Well on my machine it deleted the directory and all contents. Anyway I
wasn't holding up the release because of it. I just throught it rather
amusing. Spend all that time configuring a directory only to delete it
just before using it.
When I type "make" the build the stopped on the first line.
I'll try to tag today in about 4 hours.
Cheers
Martin
> 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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