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Re: mv deletes file
- To: N8TM at aol dot com, TYann at vet dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: mv deletes file
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 05:44:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: dougk at primenet dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/20/98 9:54:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
TYann@vet.com.au
> writes:
>
> > try to move file src to dest
> > if failed because dest already exists
> > delete dest
> > try to move file src to dest
> >
> Well, in my example, I tried to install make-3.77 by typing "make
install".
> Of course, it got as far as deleting the make.exe which was running,
and no
> further. I have no trouble with ./make install, however.
This has nothing to do with the other. Your problem is that when you
did `make install' you tried to overwrite the make.exe you were
executing and Win32 won't allow an open file to be deleted. When you
did `./make install' you were then executing the make.exe you were
installing and then you had no problems because you weren't trying to
delete the opened executable.
==
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