Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains
> > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating
> > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT PORTABLE.
>
> Not all environments will allow you to delete an open file.
> A file that tries to delete itself will fail on such an environment.
> -8<-
Yep. You're right. It just means it has to be named
differently and it does not disappear. OTOH, it is only
used for fresh CVS installations by people that I would
presume to be developers, not the "general public". Thus,
I don't care that much that it does not work on retrograde
platforms. I will, however, rewrite the "rm -f" as:
( mv -f ${srcdir}/configure ${srcdir}/CFG$$.tmp || exit 1
rm -f ${srcdir}/CFG$$.tmp || : ) >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "You must now delete ${srcdir}/configure and run autoconf"
exit 0
}
I suppose that is not portable, either? :-}
