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robustifying remove_distdir?
From: |
David Fang |
Subject: |
robustifying remove_distdir? |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:47:57 -0400 (EDT) |
Hi,
I'm have a strange problem with automake-1.9.5, where
"make dist" is dying at the very end on $(am__remove_distdir) because
the "rm -rf" fails.
{ test ! -d myproj || { find myproj -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';'
&&
rm -fr myproj; }; }
rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/connect': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/flow': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/param': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/process': Directory not empty
Where:
am__remove_distdir = \
{ test ! -d $(distdir) \
|| { find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' \
&& rm -fr $(distdir); }; }
Looking inside the remnants of the distdir, I find that files named
towards the end of the alphabetical ordering failed to be removed, likely
an artifact of the shell or file system? (Yes, there are *hundreds* of
files in those dist-directories.) This has happened to me occasionally on
FreeBSD, linux, and Darwin (nondeterminstically). By hand, one ends up
"rm -rf"-ing several times until removal succeeds.
Is there a way of making the "rm -rf" more robust? Maybe with some sort
of "while distdir exists, try removing" loop?
David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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- robustifying remove_distdir?,
David Fang <=