Re: [LUG] make dist gettext problems.

[Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:37:30 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:

> Anyone used gettext with a C library? I'm getting strange errors on make dist 
> that make no sense:
> 
> dists="ChangeLog Makefile.in.in POTFILES.in  "; \
> extra_dists="POTFILES.skip Makevars LINGUAS"; \
> for file in $extra_dists; do \
>   test -f $file && dists="$dists $file"; \
> done; \
> for file in $dists; do \
>   ln ./$file ../qof-0.6.0/po 2> /dev/null \
>     || cp -p ./$file ../qof-0.6.0/po; \
> done
> cp: `./ChangeLog' and `../qof-0.6.0/po/ChangeLog' are the same file
> cp: `./Makefile.in.in' and `../qof-0.6.0/po/Makefile.in.in' are the same file
> cp: `./POTFILES.in' and `../qof-0.6.0/po/POTFILES.in' are the same file
> cp: `./Makevars' and `../qof-0.6.0/po/Makevars' are the same file
> make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/working/qof/po'
> make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> 
> The files really do appear the same - deleting one allows the copy to take 
> place but the next make dist breaks it again.
> :-(
> 
> But they really are the same file, and not a symlink either:
> 
> cp: `/opt/working/qof/po/ChangeLog' and 
> `/opt/working/qof/qof-0.6.0/po/ChangeLog' are the same file

Are they *actually* the same file?  A hardlink perhaps, or just two completely 
identical files?

Grant.
-- 
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