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Re: Problem installing coreutils-5.2.1 over the same prefix
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: Problem installing coreutils-5.2.1 over the same prefix |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:08:24 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "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