Quoting from the the autoconf docs at
http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html#Limitations-of-Usual-Tools
rm
The -f and -r options are portable.
-Paul
On 12/20/2011 5:40 PM, Rayson Ho wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
I a
OK, I'll concede the "-r" which should not be required in this case anyway.
However, if "rm -f" doesn't work, then we have 169 additional problems
to fix ;-)
$ find openmpi-1.5.5rc1 -name Makefile.am | xargs grep 'rm -f' | wc -l
169
-Paul
On 12/20/2011 5:28 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
I am pr
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
>> I am pretty sure a literal "rm -rf" should be fine.
>
> Not necessarily. I'm not at work. But I think either -f or -r might not be
> legal on all Unix's (Tru64 Unix? AIX?).
I used to code on AIX daily, and I am pretty sure that "rm -rf" w
> I am pretty sure a literal "rm -rf" should be fine.
Not necessarily. I'm not at work. But I think either -f or -r might not be
legal on all Unix's (Tru64 Unix? AIX?).
Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
ba...@usgs.gov
On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
> For
