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from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
from /tmp.
Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the d
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Sep 2002 13:45:24
>> +0200
>> As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure we need a tmp dir at all.
Paul> In other words, you're suggestiong that we should remove
Paul> AS_TMPDIR and rewrite l
> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 24 Sep 2002 13:45:24 +0200
> As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure we need a tmp dir at all.
In other words, you're suggestiong that we should remove AS_TMPDIR and
rewrite lib/autoconf/status.m4 to put its temporaries in the working
directory ra
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Can some one remind me why "configure"'s temporary directory is
Paul> in /tmp (or $TMPDIR) rather than in the current directory? If
Paul> we put the temporary directory in "." then this problem would go
Paul> away.
That's exactly wha
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:17:37PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:53:57 -0700
> >
> > I suppose I should know this, but what is it that's making the guid of
> > files created in /tmp the guid of "wheel" (guid:0) instead of the u
Can some one remind me why "configure"'s temporary directory is in
/tmp (or $TMPDIR) rather than in the current directory? If we put the
temporary directory in "." then this problem would go away.
> From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:53:57 -0700
>
> I suppose I should know this, but what is it that's making the guid of
> files created in /tmp the guid of "wheel" (guid:0) instead of the users
> guid? Is that just only on BSD?
Yes, it's the BSD tradition.
At 05:02 PM 09/19/02 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> If the duplication of the file characteristics fails for any reason,
> mv shall write a diagnostic message to standard error, but this
> failure shall not cause mv to modify its exit status.
So it's an annoying yet expected message.
I suppose I
> From: Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:50:29 -0400
>
> I wonder what POSIX has to say about this?
POSIX says that FreeBSD "mv" conforms, and that Solaris "/bin/mv" and
GNU "mv" do not conform. You can see the sad news in step 5 of:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlin
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:51:01PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> (set X`ls -dln` && chgrp $4 $tmp) 2>/dev/null
Some versions of ls don't print the group name by default:
% /usr/ucb/ls -dln .
drwxr-xr-x 52 erics6656 Sep 19 19:50 .
You can add "-g" to fix that, but I bet the
> From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:01:50 -0700
> >is there some command you can issue after the mkdir but before the
> >touch, which will fix the problem?
>
> I'm not sure. Could chgrp the file in /tmp before moving, I suppose, but
> is that portable?
We can i
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:01:50PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> It's more that the file in /tmp is created with group "wheel" which I am
> not a member of, so mv (cp -p across file systems) generates that message.
Bitch to the FreeBSD folks about their mv that prints pedantic
error messages compl
At 01:31 PM 09/19/02 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:56:20 -0700
>
>> config.status: creating Makefile
>> mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
>
>You don't mention the Autoconf version. Was your "conf
> From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:56:20 -0700
> config.status: creating Makefile
> mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
You don't mention the Autoconf version. Was your "configure" generated
by Autoconf 2.54? It has some fixes
At 09:34 AM 09/19/02 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 23:56:20 -0700]:
>> bash-2.05a$ touch /tmp/foo
>> bash-2.05a$ mv /tmp/foo .
>> mv: ./foo: set owner/group (was: 3830/0): Operation not permitted
>> bash-2.05a$ ls foo
>> foo
>
>This seems to be a problem wi
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 23:56:20 -0700]:
> bash-2.05a$ touch /tmp/foo
> bash-2.05a$ mv /tmp/foo .
> mv: ./foo: set owner/group (was: 3830/0): Operation not permitted
> bash-2.05a$ ls foo
> foo
This seems to be a problem with 'mv' on the system and autoconf is
just suffering f
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