Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom silver branch

[root]

> Calling make will do the following (as near as I can tell):
>   make noweb
>   make litcmds
> (These are the prerequisites for "make all".)
> "make litcmds" has the line
> 
>   cp -pr ${SRC}/scripts/* ${MNT}/${SYS}/bin
> 
> After litcmds, "make all" will turn Makefile.pamphlet into a
> Makefile.linux, which will then be used.  "make all" in
> Makefile.pamphlet will first "make rootdirs", which contains the line
> 
>   cp -pr ${SRC}/scripts/* ${MNT}/${SYS}/bin
> 
> This will attempt to overwrite files previously copied to
> .../bin/tex/.svn, which causes the error.
> Without the .svn contents, the permissions of the files probably allow
> overwriting, so no error.  I don't know why that command appears
> twice; perhaps with no error, the duplication was hidden.
> 

I'll look into this. It hasn't been an issue in the past but
it appears to be unnecessary work.

t