Re: hp-ux 11.11 lib-src/Makefile cp fails due to identical files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:06:23 +0200
> From: "WAROQUIERS Philippe" <philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int>
> Cc: <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> >Does it help to prepend "-" to the offending command, i.e.
> >
> > rcs2log: $(srcdir)/rcs2log
> >     -cp -p $(srcdir)/rcs2log rcs2log
> When I put the -, then the command still fails,
> but the make output tells the exit code 1 is ignored

And that's okay, since in this particular case the file rcs2log
already exists in that directory.

> Of course, it stops then on the next cp command with
> similar problem (e.g. vcdiff and others have the same
> problem).

Well, they all should use this technique.

Thanks for testing this.