[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1514721 ] Using recursive rm in makefile fails

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Bugs item #1514721, was opened at 2006-06-29 18:02
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>Category: non-mingw
>Group: component package
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dave Silvia (dsilvia)
>Assigned to: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Summary: Using recursive rm in makefile fails

Initial Comment:
I haven't included a Category as, although it's a
binutil, it's happening from within a make.  I'm
including the text from the readme.txt in the
attached zip file below:

***** begin inclusion *****

This is a bug I found when using rm.exe from the GNU-
Win32 distribution.  I
then switched to Msys and found the bug still present 
(not surprising!;).

Included is a zip file of a small test make 
directory.  It builds a copyright
object for including in a product and instantiates a 
directory hierarchy for
that same product.

In the makefile there is a fairly standard "clean" 
target.  It simply
removes the product directory hierarchy and the .o 
and .exe files in the
copyright directory.  It uses rm -rf to do this 
normally.  For illustrative
purposes I've added the -v switch.  Also for 
illustrative purposes I've added
a MinGWversions target and "which <utilname>" 
and "<utilname> --version"
commands at relevant places.  None of this is present 
in the "normal" makefile,
but does not influence the outcome.  I've added this 
info in an attempt to be
compliant with the guidelines for submission stated 
at:

	http://www.mingw.org/bugs.shtml

In the same directory as the makefile is a 
make_all.txt and a make_clean.txt.
These files are a capture of the command prompt 
output on my system.  As you
can see in the make_clean.txt file, rm fails to 
delete a subdirectory, obj,
with a "permission denied" reason.  If "mingw32-make 
clean" is executed again,
the directory and its parent are then removed as 
should be.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?  I do not get the 
same result if I just
execute rm -rvf from the command line (always).

thx,
Dave S.
<ds...@mc...>
 
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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2006-06-30 13:19

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Firstly, make-3.80 is outdated.

I would like at this further if you test and supply the
results from make-3.81 which build OOB with MSYS and MinGW
or with VB your choice.  However, I'm thinking that the
files in your directories are not being removed because they
are still open.  Windows doesn't allow a file to be removed
while in use.

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