[Fwd: Re: make modules_install fails with latest fileutils]

[Padraig Brady]

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From: Keith Owens <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: make modules_install fails with latest fileutils
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:38:20 BST." 
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:38:20 +0100,
"Marcel J.E. Mol" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Just had some problems doing a modules_install with
>fileutils-1.1.1-1 (redhat rawhide). The cp command
>in there gives a non-zero return value when it is asked
>to copy the same file in the argument list:
>
>--- Rules.make.org  Tue Nov 20 19:36:16 2001
>+++ Rules.make      Mon Nov 19 23:48:03 2001
>@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
> _modinst__: dummy
> ifneq "$(strip $(ALL_MOBJS))" ""
>    mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)
>-   cp -f $(ALL_MOBJS) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)
>+   -cp -f $(ALL_MOBJS) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)
> endif

(1) Complain to the fileutils maintainer for introducing incompatible
    behaviour.
(2) The correct workaround is
     cp -f $(sort $(ALL_MOBJS)) 
$(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)