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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "WAROQUIERS Philippe" <philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hp-ux 11.11 lib-src/Makefile cp fails due to identical files
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:47:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzm0ze3qw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1B2B2EF98D55CB41BD16F13B18B9B0080303EE57@FFBRUE001.cfmu.corp.eurocontrol.int> (philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int)

> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:06:23 +0200
> From: "WAROQUIERS Philippe" <philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int>
> Cc: <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> >Does it help to prepend "-" to the offending command, i.e.
> >
> > rcs2log: $(srcdir)/rcs2log
> > 	-cp -p $(srcdir)/rcs2log rcs2log
> When I put the -, then the command still fails,
> but the make output tells the exit code 1 is ignored

And that's okay, since in this particular case the file rcs2log
already exists in that directory.

> Of course, it stops then on the next cp command with
> similar problem (e.g. vcdiff and others have the same
> problem).

Well, they all should use this technique.

Thanks for testing this.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-10 14:04 hp-ux 11.11 lib-src/Makefile cp fails due to identical files Philippe Waroquiers
2007-08-10 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10 15:06   ` WAROQUIERS Philippe
2007-08-10 16:47     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-08-25 11:00     ` Eli Zaretskii

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