On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote: > I have a system that doesn't have the requisite 'rm' program in > /bin/rm. The Exim make files expect it there. There is a make > variable RM_COMMAND, but it doesn't get used.
Oops. > Here is a patch to the make files so they use $(RM_COMMAND) and the > user can override it in Local/Makefile. Thank you. > Though I didn't change the default from /bin/rm, I believe the default > should be "rm", so that the user's PATH gets searched in the > conventional way. Am I the only person in the world who habitually runs with "rm" aliased to "rm -i"? This has saved me from disaster on a few occasions. However, it means that when I run build scripts that just use "rm", I have to remember to work round it. That is why Exim uses a full path name for the utility programs. I've also been caught by build scripts that fall apart because I have "ls" aliased to "ls -F". -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
