Re: Problems with directory trees "confdir-14B---" and "confdir3"

[Paul Eggert]

On 1/7/22 14:43, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> The actual cause seems to be an ability of the MacPorts software (Tcl based) to 
> remove the deep directory structure.

I expect that one option is to use GNU coreutils 'rm' instead of 
MacPorts 'rm'. Coreutils 'rm' should not have the bug you're observing.

Another option is to figure out why ./configure's test program isn't 
cleaning up after itself, which it's supposed to do. If you compile and 
run the attached program in your environment, what is its exit status 
and does it leave behind a directory? If it doesn't leave behind a 
directory, why does it work (i.e., not leave behind a directory) whereas 
./configure's test program does not work? If it does leave behind a 
directory, can you fix it to not do that?

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