Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install?

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 03:39  PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:34:51AM -0700, DH wrote:
>> How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install?
>> I usually run make UNINST=1.
>> I tried make FORCE=1 but that didn't work ;)
>> Is there such an option?
>
> If the file has changed it will overwrite it.  Otherwise it won't 
> bother
> since it would be a no-op.  'make install' will do that by default.  
> How is
> it not overwriting?
>
> UNINST=1 has nothing to do with that.  'make install UNINST=1' deletes
> all copies of the files elsewhere in your @INC path (aka 'shadowing')
> so they don't interfere with your newly installed version.

I think UNINST=1 only removes *different* versions of the file 
elsewhere in @INC.  If it finds files with the same names & contents, 
it will leave them alone, which is annoying but doesn't have much 
practical effect.

  -Ken

• How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by DH
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by Michael G Schwern
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by Ken Williams
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by DH
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by Michael G Schwern
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by DH
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: How do you force make to overwrite all files upon make install? by Michael G Schwern