[OpenAFS-devel] pod2man vandalism

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:22:48 -0800


Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

> If you make the mistake of running regen.sh on OpenBSD, pod2man will
> wipe out the following files:

> Makefile.in
> README
> README-WIN9X
> README.DEVEL
> README.SECURITY
> acinclude.m4
> config.guess
> configure-libafs.in

> I'm not sure what to do about this other than make a note in the README
> and try to remember not to do this myself.  Suggestions?

Well, figuring out how regen.sh writes to files that it has no business
writing to would be a good start....  Looking at the code, I have no idea
how that could happen.  Clues?

Running sh -x regen.sh might help shed some light.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>