Fair enough - I think I've worked around it now. Sorry for the noise, I missed the save volume restriction on rename originally.
Cheers, CY On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:49 AM, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > The cmake -E rename command is documented to work only when src and > dst are on the same volume: > > If you run "cmake -E" with no other args, the rename command is documented as: > > rename oldname newname - rename a file or directory (on one volume) > > I think doing a copy as a fallback is a reasonable thing, but I think > it's on your side of the fence. CMake properly returns an error and > tells you "can't do that rename operation" and then it should be uo to > you to make a copy if that's what you want. > > Others may want to do something else if rename cannot be done. I don't > think we should add code that says CMake will do a copy if rename > fails... > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Clifford Yapp <[email protected]> wrote: >> We've run into an issue with cmake -E rename where the rename fails >> due to rename() throwing EXDEV when done between devices (different >> partitions, nfs to local, etc). Erik Greenwald has investigated and >> has proposed a fix to allow cmake -E rename to succeed across devices >> - if possible we'd like to get this or some related fix included, >> since this is a real-world build environment situation for us: >> >> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12433 >> >> Cheers, and thanks! >> >> CY >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >> > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
