Re: mkoctfile: Problems sometimes during linking of text file

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Apr-2000, Stephen Eglen <address@hidden> wrote:

| John's suggestion worked for me, but if it is not universal, perhaps
| the `rm' lines should just be commented out in the mkoctfile along
| with a little note, something like:
| 
| ## Uncomment these lines if you get `Text file busy' errors
| ## from ld.  This may happen if the .oct file is currently running
| ## while you are trying to recompile it.
| ## $dbg "rm -f $octfile"
| ## rm -f $octfile

OK, but I used the following instead:

## Uncomment the following group of lines if you get `Text file busy'
## errors from ld.  This may happen if the .oct file is currently
## running while you are trying to recompile it.  We try moving first,
## since on somee systems (HP-UX, maybe others) it is possible to
## rename running programs but not remove them.

## $dbg "mv $octfile $octfile.bak"
## mv $octfile $octfile.bak"
## $dbg "rm -f $octfile.bak"
## rm -f $octfile.bak

Thanks,

jwe



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