Re: "rm -f core" in configure

[Russ Allbery]

Kenny Ho <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

To add one additional piece of information -- that rm was added because it
was discovered that some of Autoconf's probes for working compilers and
compiler properties would cause some buggy vendor compilers to core dump.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>