GNU finger 1.37 installation clobbers existing files in targetdir.

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From: John Eaton
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 02:46

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GNU finger 1.37 installation clobbers existing files in targetdir,
like x-.site, which may then need to be reconstructed or recreated.
This patch fixes that:

diff -rc finger-1.37.orig//targets/Makefile.in finger-1.37/targets/Makefile.in
*** finger-1.37.orig//targets/Makefile.in	Wed Oct 21 19:00:51 1992
--- finger-1.37/targets/Makefile.in	Wed Oct 28 19:57:59 1992
***************
*** 14,21 ****
  
  server: .targetdir
  	-if [ ! -r `cat .targetdir` ] ; then mkdir `cat .targetdir`; fi
! 	cp $(srcdir)/[slx]-* `cat .targetdir`
! 	chmod 755 `cat .targetdir`/*
  
  client:
  
--- 14,27 ----
  
  server: .targetdir
  	-if [ ! -r `cat .targetdir` ] ; then mkdir `cat .targetdir`; fi
! 	for f in $(srcdir)/[slx]-* ; do \
! 	  targetdir=`cat .targetdir` ; \
! 	  file=`basename $$f` ; \
! 	  if [ -f $$targetdir/$$file ]; then true; else \
! 	    cp $$f $$targetdir/$$file ; \
! 	    chmod 755 $$targetdir/$$file ; \
! 	  fi ; \
! 	done
  
  client:
  

--
John W. Eaton      | 4.3BSD is not perfect.  -- Leffler, et al. (1989).
jwe@che.utexas.edu |

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