Earl Chew wrote: > I got this error trying to build gcc using cygwin 1.5.11. This problem > is easily reproduced: > > X:> touch Tfoo.exe > X:> chmod a+rx Tfoo > X:> ls -l Tfoo > -rwxrwxrwx 1 earlch mkpasswd 0 Oct 8 22:08 Tfoo > X:> mv Tfoo foo > mv: `Tfoo' and `foo' are the same file
Long ago I submitted a patch to fileutils so that at least this would give a sensible error message. I fear the ongoing (?) lack of a volunteer for coreutils means it was never taken up. It's also very easy to recompile fileutils so that cp and mv treat "Tfoo" like "Tfoo.exe" when only the latter exists; the patch is already in the source! I like this behavior, although I guess it could, in very unusual circumstances, screw something up were it the default. Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
