Re: bug fix: mv and 'cp -r' no longer fail when ...

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> GNU mv, with changes in the upcoming coreutils-6.2, had the portability
> problem outlined in
>
>     <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8111>

And this small change to coreutils:

        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add rename-dest-slash.
        The 2006-09-08 changes made it so "mv dir new-name/" would
        fail on NetBSD 1.6.  This makes it work once again.

Index: bootstrap.conf
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RCS file: /fetish/cu/bootstrap.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 bootstrap.conf
--- bootstrap.conf      29 Aug 2006 20:50:21 -0000      1.8
+++ bootstrap.conf      15 Sep 2006 13:55:24 -0000
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
        memrchr mkancesdirs mkdir mkdir-p mkstemp mktime modechange
        mountlist obstack pathmax perl physmem posixtm posixver putenv
        quote quotearg raise readlink readtokens readtokens0 readutmp
-       realloc regex rmdir rmdir-errno rpmatch safe-read same
+       realloc regex rename-dest-slash rmdir rmdir-errno rpmatch
+       safe-read same
        save-cwd savedir settime sha1 sig2str ssize_t stat-macros
        stat-time stdbool stdlib-safer stpcpy strcase strftime
        strpbrk strtoimax strtoumax strverscmp timespec tzset