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Re: "rm -f core" in configure
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Diego Elio Pettenò |
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Re: "rm -f core" in configure |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:50:11 +0200 |
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Il 10/07/2012 23:32, Kenny Ho ha scritto:
>
> I am trying to convert one of my existing project to use automake but
> after I run autoreconf and tried ./configure, I an "rm: cannot remove
> `core': Is a directory" error. So I look into ./configure and found
> "rm -f core" in the script. Now my project actually has a directory
> name "core" but I don't think that rm command is related to my
> source. Is the "core" directory reserved for use with automake? Is
> there a way to work around this?
"core" is the default name of the files created by Linux and other
Unices containing the memory dump of a process that crashed. I guess the
reason why there's that `rm` in there is because a number of autoconf
tests do segfault, and in the case the user has a shell session with an
unlimited core size, it would find these extraneous files.
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