Re: What happened to libfeutil?

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 07:55  PM, Phil Edwards wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:01:04PM -0700, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> > On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:54  PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> > > What happened was, I prematurely created directories named libfeutil
> > > and libfeutil/include in the CVS repository, then changed my mind and
> > > deleted them - but the only way I know how to delete a directory in
> > > CVS is to go into the repository and rmdir it by hand.  Since I never
> > > checked anything into these directories, I thought this would be
> > > harmless, but it seems I was mistaken.
> >
> > Yes, it's not harmless.  There's no safe way to delete a directory in
> > CVS, the only solution is to just take care when creating them in the
> > first place, or to not worry too much about dead directories.
>
> Since contrib/gcc_update's default options are -Pd, which do not create
> dead directories, I fall squarely in the latter camp, and so should the
> rest of you.  *huge grin*

Actually, -Pd only does not create *empty* directories.  This directory 
didn't contain any other files, but it did contain other directories, 
which is why the automated tester got it.

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Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com>