Hi, I'm have a strange problem with automake-1.9.5, where "make dist" is dying at the very end on $(am__remove_distdir) because the "rm -rf" fails.
{ test ! -d myproj || { find myproj -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr myproj; }; } rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/connect': Directory not empty rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/flow': Directory not empty rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/param': Directory not empty rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/test/parser/process': Directory not empty Where: am__remove_distdir = \ { test ! -d $(distdir) \ || { find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' \ && rm -fr $(distdir); }; } Looking inside the remnants of the distdir, I find that files named towards the end of the alphabetical ordering failed to be removed, likely an artifact of the shell or file system? (Yes, there are *hundreds* of files in those dist-directories.) This has happened to me occasionally on FreeBSD, linux, and Darwin (nondeterminstically). By hand, one ends up "rm -rf"-ing several times until removal succeeds. Is there a way of making the "rm -rf" more robust? Maybe with some sort of "while distdir exists, try removing" loop? David Fang Computer Systems Laboratory Electrical & Computer Engineering Cornell University http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/ -- (2400 baud? Netscape 3.0?? lynx??? No problem!)