#3537: [with patch] sage-env should set RM="rm -f"
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Reporter: gfurnish | Owner: gfurnish
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6.2
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Author: gfurnish
Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
Merged: | Work_issues:
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Changes (by newvalueoldvalue):
* status: closed => new
* author: => gfurnish
* cc: mabshoff, Snark (added)
* upstream: => N/A
* milestone: sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix => sage-4.6.2
* resolution: wontfix =>
Old description:
> The env variable RM is set to rm instead of rm -rf. This breaks some
> functionality of make (such as compiling .l files) which breaks the
> ability to compile M2 with sage-env sourced.
New description:
The env variable RM is set to `rm` instead of `rm -f`. This breaks newer
libtools, for example anything in Fedora 12 or later (libtool 2.2.6,
autoconf 2.63, automake 1.11.1). They assume that `$RM` is either unset or
`RM="rm -f"`, that is, deleting non-existing files must not cause an
error.
One of the symptoms of this breakage is that configure ends with
{{{
rm: cannot remove `libtoolT': No such file or directory
}}}
Compile will break later on...
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Comment:
I'm reopening this bug since people keep tripping over this issue. We need
to fix this or we'll end up with every spkg working around the `RM=rm`
issue. As the spkg maintainer/author, I know that `cddlib` and `TOPCOM`
both need to `unset RM` or they won't build. In #10285 it was noted a few
days ago that Boehm GC 7.2 also trips over this issue. More and more
packages will fail because of this issue as soon as upsteam re-runs
autotools...
For the record, gfurnish's patch applies cleanly on Sage-4.6.1.alpha3
(apply to the $SAGE_LOCAL/bin repo)
I'd be happy to give this a positive review. Maybe mabshoff can reconsider
his objections?
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3537#comment:5>
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