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use of "rm" command.
From: |
David Relson |
Subject: |
use of "rm" command. |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Jan 2004 12:57:33 -0500 |
Greetings and Happy New Year,
Looking at the generated configure script, I notice that almost all
occurrences of the "rm" command use either the "-f" or "-rf" options.
In one case only is "rm" used without options and that's in
autoconf/general.m4 in the following code snippet:
cat <<\_ACEOF >conftest.sed
[s/[\\$]/&&/g;s/;s,x,x,$//]
_ACEOF
program_transform_name=`echo $program_transform_name | sed -f
conftest.sed`
rm conftest.sed
Is there a particular reason for no options? The reason I ask is
two-fold. First, a bogofilter builder on OpenBSD-3.1 has encountered an
unexpected query while running configure:
override rw-r--r-- user/group conftest.sed?
Secondly, since there's _only_ the one usage without options, it seems
anomalous.
FWIW, the following patch corrects the problem:
--- general.m4.orig 2003-12-20 09:00:01.000000000 -0500
+++ general.m4 2004-01-02 18:01:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@
[s/[\\$]/&&/g;s/;s,x,x,$//]
_ACEOF
program_transform_name=`echo $program_transform_name | sed -f
conftest.sed`
-rm conftest.sed
+rm -f conftest.sed
])# AC_ARG_PROGRAM
Cheers!
David
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