On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 01:44 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 the mental interface of > Sven Luther told: > > > Manoj, or someone else from the kernel team, what do you think about this ? > > i > > thought the - in the line only meant errors are ignored or something, and > > furthermore this seems to be in the rules file, not the postnst. > > Hmm, > $ -depmod -a > zsh: command not found: -depmod > if it is a shell command that won't work.
The leading dash is interpreted by make and causes it to ignore errors from depmod, the shell doesn't see it. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer