Re: "rm -f core" in configure

2012-07-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 11/07/2012 18:33, Russ Allbery ha scritto: > To add one additional piece of information -- that rm was added because it > was discovered that some of Autoconf's probes for working compilers and > compiler properties would cause some buggy vendor compilers to core dump. I wish it was just proble

Re: "rm -f core" in configure

2012-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Kenny Ho writes: > I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but > after I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove > `core': Is a directory" error. So I look into ./configure and found "rm > -f core" in the script. Now my project actually has a dire

Re: "rm -f core" in configure

2012-07-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 07/10/2012 11:32 PM, Kenny Ho wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but after > I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove `core': Is a > directory" error. So I look into ./configure and found "rm -f core" in the > script. > In

Re: "rm -f core" in configure

2012-07-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 10/07/2012 23:32, Kenny Ho ha scritto: > > I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but > after I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove > `core': Is a directory" error. So I look into ./configure and found > "rm -f core" in the script. Now my p

"rm -f core" in configure

2012-07-11 Thread Kenny Ho
Hi, I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but after I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove `core': Is a directory" error. So I look into ./configure and found "rm -f core" in the script. Now my project actually has a directory name "core" b