Date: 6 Oct 1999 12:39:15 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/14163: fix handbook symlink install problem with old version installed Message-ID: <19991006123915.33112.qmail@mithrandr.moria.org>
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>Number: 14163
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: fix handbook symlink install problem with old version installed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 6 06:30:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Rhodes University Computer Users' Society
>Environment:
FreeBSD mithrandr.moria.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Sep 29 17:30:21 SAST 1999 root@mithrandr.moria.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/MITHRANDR i386
>Description:
The 'symlinks' target uses rm -f to remove any already existing
symlinks; in the case of /usr/share/doc/handbook this is a directory,
not a symlink.
It should probably be rm -rf instead.
>How-To-Repeat:
mkdir /usr/share/doc/handbook
cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books && make install
>Fix:
cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: doc.subdir.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/nbm/ncvs/doc/share/mk/doc.subdir.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 doc.subdir.mk
--- doc.subdir.mk 1999/09/06 06:53:39 1.2
+++ doc.subdir.mk 1999/10/06 12:34:20
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
${ECHO} "$${d}/$${l} doesn't exist, not linking"; \
else \
${ECHO} $${d}/$${t} -\> $${d}/$${l}; \
- (cd $${d} && rm -f $${t}); \
+ (cd $${d} && rm -rf $${t}); \
(cd $${d} && ln -s $${l} $${t}); \
fi; \
done
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