On Monday 03 September 2001 12:21, you wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2001 3:48 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > What does the 'mv' command actually do?
> > I've always been under the impression that it simply renames the
> > file/directory, but I get the feeling there's more to it than that.
> >
> > My recent experience with compiling the KDE2.2 SRPMs has led me to think
> > that.
> >
> > When I tried to compile the KDE2.2 source under eW3.1, I first mv'd the
> > /opt/kde2 directory to /opt/kde22, thinking this got the existing KDE
> > stuff out of the way for the new install. But I couldn't get kdelibs to
> > compile. I then decided to just try instaling kde2 from the RPMs instead
> > of the SRPMs and that seemed to work (well, I DID --force --nodeps
> > everything). I then had the problem of starting KDE, which apparently was
> > the result of the inability to load a shared library.
> >
> > I then punted. I rm -r'd the /opt/kde2 directory and mv'd /opt/kde22 back
> > to /opt/kde2. Next I cp -R'd /opt/kde2 to /opt/kde22 for a backup.
> > After that, I decided to re-try the SRPMs, and everything compiled fine
> > (except for kdegraphics, which required a little cheating).
> >
> > The only difference bewteen my two methods, was the use of 'cp -R' to
> > make a backup of /opt/kde2 rather than 'mv'.
> >
> > Hence my question, what does the command 'mv' actually do?
>
> mv just does a rename (as long as the source & target are on the same
> partition/drive, but that's another story). I think your problem arose
> because the kde2.2 compile needed something from the original kde2 tree,
> which of course you had effectively removed by doing a mv. I can't say for
> sure as you didn't say what the compile error actually was.
>
> HTH
> Pam
to add to what Pam has said, if you need to use the old kde2.2 as kde2 then
symlink it as ln -s kde2.2 kde2
cheers, good explaination Pam
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