Kenny Ho <k...@vixs.com> 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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
