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Re: [PATCH] canonicalize-lgpl: work around AIX realpath bug


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] canonicalize-lgpl: work around AIX realpath bug
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:17:14 -0600
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On 06/06/2011 05:11 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> +    rm -Rf conftest.a conftest.d
> 
>        rm -rf conftest.a conftest.d
> 
> would be more portable, I think: The autoconf documentation mentions
> 
>   `rm'
>        The `-f' and `-r' options are portable.
> 
> whereas it does not say that '-R' is portable.

Fair enough.  POSIX requires -R as a synonym to -r, but on the
off-chance that someone still lacks the newer spelling, it would be nice
to know who so that autoconf can give better details.  I've made that
change.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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