bug#18648: rm -f with no file operands fails on old BSD systems

2014-10-06 Thread Richard Hansen
Hi all, A friend reported this to me: > $ ./configure > ... > usage: rm [-f|-i] [-dPRrvW] file ... > Oops! > > Your 'rm' program seems unable to run without file operands specified > on the command line, even when the '-f' option is present. This is contrary > to the behaviour of most rm progra

bug#18648: rm -f with no file operands fails on old BSD systems

2014-10-06 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Richard Hansen wrote: ... > Digging around in various CVS/Subversion repositories, it looks like > there are many old (but perhaps not yet museum-worthy) *BSD versions > that behave this way: > > * NetBSD 4.x and older (5.0 released April 2009). see: [1] [2] >