Re: Bootstrapping Emacs-CVS on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:44:59 +0200 (MET DST)
> > From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it>
> >
> >
> > Copying etc/DOC-22.1.50.1 to
> > /tmp/emacs/inst/usr/local/emacs/share/emacs/22.1.50/etc ...
> > DOC-22.1.50.1
> > rm: cannot remove `DOC': No such file or directory
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > make: [install-arch-indep] Error 1 (ignored)
> >                           ^^^^^^^^^
> > unset CDPATH; \
> > ...
> > ========================================
> >
> > This happens while running 'make install...'.
>
> Looks like this is on purpose, as this comment in Makefile.in says:
>
>     ## Note that we copy DOC* and then delete DOC
>     ## as a workaround for a bug in tar on Ultrix 4.2.
>
> The relevant line of the install-arch-indep commands is this:
>
>     if test "`echo DOC-*`" != "DOC-*"; then rm DOC; fi
>
> and in your case, there's DOC-22.1.50.1, so Make tries to "rm DOC".
>
> Maybe we should use "rm -f" to avoid the error message?

Probably, yes!



Cheers,

   Angelo.


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