Re: "rm -f core" in configure

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

Il 10/07/2012 23:32, Kenny Ho ha scritto:
> 
> I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but
> after I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove
> `core': Is a directory" error.  So I look into ./configure and found
> "rm -f core" in the script.  Now my project actually has a directory
> name "core" but I don't think that rm command is related to my
> source.  Is the "core" directory reserved for use with automake?  Is
> there a way to work around this?

"core" is the default name of the files created by Linux and other
Unices containing the memory dump of a process that crashed. I guess the
reason why there's that `rm` in there is because a number of autoconf
tests do segfault, and in the case the user has a shell session with an
unlimited core size, it would find these extraneous files.

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