Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 4/1/2008 9:25 AM:
> | The first is because I found a few persistent dangling symlinks
> | in lib/*.[ch] to be annoying.
>
> | +find "$m4_base" "$source_base" \
> | + -name '*.m4' -depth -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Except that doesn't delete dangling links in lib/*.[ch].
>
> You need something like:
>
> find "$m4_base" "$source_base" -depth \
> ~ \( -name '*.m4' -o -name '*.[ch]' \) -type l -xtype l -delete
Thanks.
Here's what I'll probably use:
bootstrap: remove dangling *.[ch] symlinks from lib
* bootstrap [dangling symlink removal]: Match *.[ch] files, too.
Suggestion from Eric Blake.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 94d8921..1274af2 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ if test -f $mam_template; then
done
fi
-# Remove any dangling symlink matching "*.m4" in the gnulib-populated
-# $m4_base directory, since such a file would cause aclocal to fail.
+# Remove any dangling symlink matching "*.m4" or "*.[ch]" in some
+# gnulib-populated directories. Such .m4 files would cause aclocal to fail.
# The following requires GNU find 4.2.3 or newer. Considering the usual
# portability constraints of this script, that may seem a very demanding
# requirement, but it should be ok. Ignore any failure, which is fine,
@@ -558,7 +558,8 @@ fi
# unusual case in which a symlinked-to .m4 file is git-removed from gnulib
# between successive runs of this script.
find "$m4_base" "$source_base" \
- -depth -name '*.m4' -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1
+ -depth \( -name '*.m4' -o -name '*.[ch]' \) \
+ -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1
# Reconfigure, getting other files.
--
1.5.5.rc2.7.g0b2fe
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