autoheader (mv/exec) problem

[Earnie Boyd]

Hmm... I think I remember posting a patch for this.  I don't remember the
details as it was some months agot.

Cheers,
Earnie.
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> When running autoheader, I kept getting error messages like the
> following:
> 
>     mv: cannot move `autoh16138' to `config.h.in': Permission denied
> 
> But after autoheader exited, I could successfully execute:
> 
>     mv autoh16138 config.h.in
> 
> without any problems.
> 
> By reading the (shell script) source to autoheader, I determined that
> the problem has to do with trying to move a file when it is still open
> -- which is no surprise since Cygwin is sitting on top of Windows...
> 
> The attached shell script exhibits the above problem on Cygwin but works
> on Linux.  I'm not sure if this one is fixable...
> 
> Jason
> 
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