Re: Problem installing coreutils-5.2.1 over the same prefix

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Paul> Thanks for reporting that.  Here is a proposed patch to Automake's
 Paul> install-sh to handle this case.

Hi Paul, thanks for fixing this.  Could you install your change on
both HEAD and branch-1-8?

 Paul> +           # perhaps because mv is so ancient that it does not
 Paul> +           # support -f.

Does such ancient `mv' really exist?  The autoconf manual claims
that `mv -f' is portable, and I have always assumed so. It's
used in some Automake rules, and also right after this comment
in the script:

[...]

 Paul> +           {
 Paul> +             if test -f "$dstdir/$dstfile"; then
 Paul> +               $doit $rmcmd -f "$dstdir/$dstfile" 2>/dev/null \
 Paul> +               || $doit $mvcmd -f "$dstdir/$dstfile" "$rmtmp" 
2>/dev/null \
[...]
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz