Re: core subdirectories

Let me correct my typos....

"Which of these do they expect to be a directory?"...

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:30:34PM -0500, William J. Mills wrote:
> My question is which of these do the exect to be a directory?  WHy the heck do they
> have the -rf rather than just -f?
> 
> 	trap 'rm -fr conftest* confdefs* core core.* *.core $ac_clean_files; exit 1' 1 2 15
> 
> This seems overly aggressive.
> 
> -bill
> 
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:46:03PM -0700, Matt Small wrote:
> > Hmm.  I think this is a version difference; the original configure script was
> > generated with autoconf 2.13, and I've generated mine with 2.53.  Unfortunately,
> > the new version always executes the cleanup code, on exits from all signals.
> > 
> > Sorry that I didn't see the version difference, though; I didn't even think of 
> > looking for that.
> > 
> > -matt
> > 
> > > This looks like a real problem, but only if the configure script is
> > > interrupted.  The problem lines are of the form
> > > 
> > > trap 'rm -fr conftest* confdefs* core core.* *.core $ac_clean_files; exit 1' 1 2 15
> > > 
> > > and they appear throughout the script.  These lines appear to be
> > > generated automatically by autoconf.
> > > 
> > > It hasn't been my experience that running configure causes the core
> > > directory to be deleted.  (That would be really awful!)  But from
> > > looking at the code, just typing C-c at the wrong time during its
> > > execution would cause core to be deleted.
> 
> 
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