* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:19:26PM CET: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > >> It is okay with me. You sure that you want to proceed this way, rather >> than changing >> rm conftest* >> >> to >> rm -rf conftest.dSYM >> rm conftest* >> >> (because the only possible problem with the change is that people have >> dirs named conftest<something> in their sources, but this does seem >> unlikely). > > I think that it is wise to not make unnecessary assumptions and to use the > safer approach, particularly since it is so easy to do so.
Well, if there wee anybody who'd use `conftest<something>' in their sources, then: - either it wasn't a directory, then `rm conftest*' would have already killed it - or it was a directory, then `./configure' would have already output those bogus warnings. Because of that, I consider `rm -rf conftest*' safe in situations where we said `rm -f conftest*' before; only where Autoconf delimited removal to more specific patterns does it make sense to still do so. I have applied the Libtool patches. Cheers, and thanks, Ralf
