Am 11.05.2018 um 17:40 schrieb Charles Gonnaud:
Hello all,
I encountered some difficulties today when trying to compile automake
1.16.1 from the sources : automake wouldn't compile if the parent
directory was named automake.
[...]
cp -r automake-1.16.1 automake
Ah, but you're not just renaming it: you're copying the whole thing, and
throwing away the original timestamps in the process!
That's rather a different kettle of fish, because it triggers re-build
rules that have to run automake itself, trapping you in a chicken-or-egg
cycle.
I'm relatively sure that an actual rename would have worked better, as
should an attribute-preserved copy:
cp -a automake-1.16.1 automake
