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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that I've used Fileutils to do a 'make install' on scripts -
> glib 1.2.10 and XDelta 1.1.2 spring to mind. What platform did you find this
> on? I'm using Windows 98 SE - perhaps this is hiding the bug for me. I did
> test Fileutils under plain ol' DOS, but I did not test installing scripts with
> ginstall AFAICR.

You won't see that crash on Windows; see my other message in this
thread.

> BTW Fileutils 4.1 is not far from alpha. I'm just trying to get the test suite
> to work with DJGPP 2.03. I'm inclined to give up and just build it with DJGPP
> CVS, since the test suite relies on symlinks a lot (ugh).

What does it do that previous versions didn't?

Anyway, I don't recommend to distribute a package built with the CVS
library, it's not tested enough, and its symlink support will make
Fileutils conflict with all the other applications.