LYNX-DEV 2-8 compiled on Irix 5.3 (was problem)

[Philip Webb]

980301 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 980301 Philip Webb wrote: 
> > this is on an SGI machine running Irix 5.3.  i downloaded 2-8pre.
> > then i tried (1)  ./configure , which ran for  c 20 mins ,
> > continually asking me "File conftest.foo : remove yes/no[no]",
> Well, that is not expected behavior.  It sounds like there is something
> fundamentally amiss in the environment.  I would start with the 'remove'
> message above:  there should be nothing which does that, unless you have a
> modified 'rm' command in your path (though /bin/rm is reasonably standard,
> some systems may/may not have it like that -- so 'rm' is just in the path). 

yup, that was it: the default environment is called `safe',
which restricts the usual  mv cp rm  in some way to protect the naive.
when i entered  unsafe  & then  ./configure , everything went thro' OK.

BTW -- since i'm still a bit naive about some things --
can i be sure that using  rm -r  ordinarily -- ie `unsafe' --
will never remove anything ABOVE the current directory?
this comes up eg when i want to remove the files from an old Lynx version.

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