Message-ID: <002701c26cee$81c542c0$0100a8c0@p4>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Working RM.EXE in Coreutils 4.5.1
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:11:22 +1000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

I checked out the Fileutils home page at www.fsf.org and found that there
had been a complete re-write of of the remove functionality in the latest
beta version of the fileuitls and coreutils.

I downloaded the fileutils 4.1.11 and the coreutils 4.5.1 and had a lo0k at
the changs and they were substantial with regards to rm.c and remove.c. The
coreutils source was later and had some bug fixes so I decided to try to
build
the coreutils to check if the resulting rm.exe worked or had the same
problem s as per the fileutils 4.1 with the latest LIBC as reported
previously.

The rm.exe that I built from coreutils correctly recusively removed the
diretory tree which failed with the fileutils 4.1 rm.exe built with LIBC.

Please note that the coreutils 4.5.1 does not build out of the box for
DJGPP. I have not completed a full build of all the files yet, but once it
is done I will do a complete re-build of all of the packages available at
clio.

Hope this helps out.

Andrew