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Re: How not to override existing file

From: Sean MacLennan <seanm at seanm dot ca>
To: tromey at redhat dot com
Cc: automake at gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:58:59 -0400
Subject: Re: How not to override existing file
References: <15729.7786.980056.743241@fillmore.seanm.ca><87ptvykbw3.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

Tom Tromey writes:
 > There's no automatic way to do this.
 > But you can write an install-local rule and do it by hand.

Ok, I have done that. Now one last question. What is the "correct" way
to remove a directory when I do not want an error if the directory is
non-empty.

Currently I just do:

	  rmdir $(DESTDIR)$(rootdir)

Is this ok?

Cheers,
   Sean

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