From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: mv deletes file
21 Aug 1998 19:06:53 -0700
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To: N8TM AT aol DOT com, TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au
Cc: dougk AT primenet DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---N8TM AT aol DOT com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/20/98 9:54:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au
> writes:
> 
> > 	try to move file src to dest
> >  	if failed because dest already exists
> >  		delete dest
> >  		try to move file src to dest
> >  
> Well, in my example, I tried to install make-3.77 by typing "make
install".
> Of course, it got as far as deleting the make.exe which was running,
and no
> further.  I have no trouble with ./make install, however.

This has nothing to do with the other.  Your problem is that when you
did `make install' you tried to overwrite the make.exe you were
executing and Win32 won't allow an open file to be deleted.  When you
did `./make install' you were then executing the make.exe you were
installing and then you had no problems because you weren't trying to
delete the opened executable.

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