Re: [WIP Patch] tripwire; "install" duplicate filenames?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hi Ludo,
>
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:44:41 +0100
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > does anyone know how I can easily fix "install" complaining about a file 
>> > being specified multiple times (in an upstream project)?
>> >
>> > The error messages I get (among other similar ones):
>> >
>> >  /gnu/store/9xfn6q7cxqxaxsv6kgiic9iygl2iv2ci-coreutils-8.25/bin/install -c 
>> > -m 644 twconfig.4 twpolicy.4 twconfig.4 twpolicy.4 
>> > '/gnu/store/777fr26j9g5wr0d1pgz83a21s518b6hh-tripwire-2.4.3.2/share/man/man4'
>> > /gnu/store/9xfn6q7cxqxaxsv6kgiic9iygl2iv2ci-coreutils-8.25/bin/install: 
>> > will not overwrite just-created 
>> > '/gnu/store/777fr26j9g5wr0d1pgz83a21s518b6hh-tripwire-2.4.3.2/share/man/man4/twconfig.4'
>> >  with 'twconfig.4'
>> > /gnu/store/9xfn6q7cxqxaxsv6kgiic9iygl2iv2ci-coreutils-8.25/bin/install: 
>> > will not overwrite just-created 
>> > '/gnu/store/777fr26j9g5wr0d1pgz83a21s518b6hh-tripwire-2.4.3.2/share/man/man4/twpolicy.4'
>> >  with 'twpolicy.4'  
>> 
>> Looks like a harmless warning.  I would not bother about it.  :-)
>
> Well, the build fails. Do you think it's because of something else? :)

I don’t know.  :-)

At any, the problem here is that the same file appears several times on
the command line.  Perhaps this can be fixed by patching the makefile
that runs this command?

My 2¢,
Ludo’.