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why bother , play america's army a little later; let kde finish ;-) anyway you should be catching signals ( like ctrl-c ) in your script and reset all environment variables and try giving a way so that the next time you car run the script and it picks up from where it had left Christopher J Bottaro wrote: > hello again, > i wrote a perl script to compile and install kde for me. compiling kde from > scratch can be an all day affair so its nice to have an automated script to > do it overnight or whatever. it works great if it finishes the whole way > thru, but the problem arises when i kill the script before it finishes... > > say for instance my kde install script compiles and installs 7 kde packages. > i decide to kill it via ctrl-c so i can use my computer for something else > (like playing america's army, hehe). then i want to manually finish > installing kde. the problem is, it won't let me manually finish installing > kde. when i run make, it bombs out saying something about a libtool file > being moved. > > i don't understand why compiling kde via the script works all the way thru, > but not if i use the script to do half then manually do the other half. > > i'm using system() to exec stuff like "configure", "make" and "make install". > > any insight would greatly be appreciated... > > thanks, > christopherThread Previous | Thread Next