[Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan at stat.wisc.edu
Sun Sep 21 17:58:10 MEST 2003


On Sunday 21 September 2003 16:50, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:23:57 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:
> >This is not a bug! It works when compiling from clean sources.
> >
> >I guess you have unpacked new sources over old sources? Please clean the
> >directory before unpacking a new version, and try to compile again. A
> >couple of us ran in the same problem during the last weeks.
>
> I don't know if this is what happened here, but this kind of thing
> also happens when using rsync, not just when unpacking tarballs:
> rsync won't delete obsolete files.  Anonymous cvs wouldn't have this
> problem.

rsync should delete files if you give the --delete flag (and cvs wouldn't 
unless you give the -d flag).

Deepayan



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