mv: `Tcollect2' and `collect2' are the same file

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>Earl Chew wrote:
>> I got this error trying to build gcc using cygwin 1.5.11. This problem
>> is easily reproduced:
>>
>> X:> touch Tfoo.exe
>> X:> chmod a+rx Tfoo
>> X:> ls -l Tfoo
>> -rwxrwxrwx    1 earlch   mkpasswd        0 Oct  8 22:08 Tfoo
>> X:> mv Tfoo foo
>> mv: `Tfoo' and `foo' are the same file
>
>Long ago I submitted a patch to fileutils so that at least this would 
>give a sensible error message.  I fear the ongoing (?) lack of a 
>volunteer for coreutils means it was never taken up.  

Correct.  fileutils is dead.  There will be no more updates.  We're
waiting for a coreutils maintainer to step forward.

cgf

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