On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:38:51PM +0100, Jos� Fonseca wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:01:16AM -0600, Jens Owen wrote:
>> It looks like there is some type of problem when the GL subdirectory is
>> empty. Here's what the script tries to do when it get's to an empty GL
>> portion of the install.
>>
>
>Ok. The problem is at:
>
> echo -n " GL & GLU libraries..."
> cd GL
> for FILE in *
> do
> mv -f $XF86_GL_DIR/$FILE $XF86_GL_DIR/dri-old.$FILE >& $LOGFILE_TMP;
> cp -f $FILE $XF86_GL_DIR
> done
>
>The '*' wildcard isn't matched so it's copied verbatim into $FILE actually doing
>
> mv -f $XF86_GL_DIR/* $XF86_GL_DIR/dri-old.* >& $LOGFILE_TMP;
>
>Since I don't want to replace a bug for another, what should be the best thing to do
>in
>these cases? The alternatives I see are
> - replacing the * for `ls`
> - replacing the * for `find`
>
>Are there any caveats with any of these, or is there another way to do this?
>
[...]
I took Ian Romanick's suggestion and changed all to
ls -1 * | while read FILE
Next snapshots (which are now fully automated again) have this already.
Notify if you run into problems.
Jos� Fonseca
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