-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Patrick Welche on 12/14/2007 9:19 AM: > There already is a safety check in libtool at > > # Don't error if the file doesn't exist and rm -f was used. > > but then there are all the cases where $RM is used. Invent a shell > function which does rm -f if its argument isn't empty?
The general idiom for this is 'rm -f dummy $files', so that even if $files is empty, you are still passing an argument to rm, and the -f avoids failure on the dummy argument. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYtkz84KuGfSFAYARAt+qAKCR75XdgE9Fz5cucJNlPUZQaE3shwCfQeGW 8kIc6AWFs59ZbQfm07vnTbw= =ebce -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
