Re: tclcl snapshot

[John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>]

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:41:49 PST, Yan Yu wrote: 
>when I try to make install yesterday's tclcl snapshot, I got the error:
>
>cp libtclcl.a /home/netlab1/yanyu/ns/ns-2/tclcl-1.0b8/lib/libtclcl.a
>test -e /home/netlab1/yanyu/ns/ns-2/tclcl-1.0b8/lib/libTcl.a && rm -f 
>/home/netlab1/yanyu/ns/ns-2/tclcl-1.0b8/lib/libTcl.a || true
>sh: test: argument expected
>*** Error code 1 (ignored)
>
>so I change "test -e" to "test -f" in Makefile. Is this what it is 
>supposed to mean? ( btw, I could not find "-e" option in "test" manual)

Yes, basically.

(from the Linux man page)
       -e file
              True if file exists
       -f file
              True if file exists and is a regular file.

There's no longer any reason to install libTcl, though, so I'll just
remove the code.  (Since -e apparently isn't portable.)

   -John Heidemann