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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > Or 'rm -r -- *'. This is supposed to be supported by GNU rm,
> > > not sure about busybox.
> >
> > Does not work.   Same message about no such option.  I am using GNU rm,
> > not busybox.
>
> Mine says:
>
> $ rm --help
> <snip>
> To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo',
> use one of these commands:
>  rm -- -foo
>
>  rm ./-foo


When I try this it turns everything to upper ascii.
> From fileutls (probably SW71).

> Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to recover
> the contents of that file.  If you want more assurance that the contents are
> truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.
>
> Report bugs to <bug-fileutils AT gnu.org>.
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> I got it from either SW81 or linuxpackages. What does your rm --help
> say? If it doesn't do what it says it is supposed to do, that is a bug.


My rm --help is shorter.  It gives a list of switches such as -r and -d 
and -f, all of which I tried.


> > Any other ideas on how to delete the contents of this garbled directory?
>
> Backup what is not garbled and reformat with mkdosfs. Or use a
> camera's format function.

Reformatting will wipe out the photos.  I will try SW81 rm first.
I do have three other copies of the photos but want to learn to fix the 
problem with rm if possible.


SW81 behaves the same except the message when I try to rm with various 
options says Cannot remove: (garbage):  no such file or directory, but 
some of the lines have /234/234/234/1123/234/qw52/232/   etc. in them 
which I don't think I saw before.  So it lists all the 'files' there and 
tells me they each don't exist.

I will give up and reformat in the camera.

Next problem:

Trying to compile dynamical-uclibc netpbm.
I don't need libjpeg unless I want to make mpeg from jpeg losslessly, but 
I was able to compile libjpeg easily.  I have libz and don't want libtiff 
or libpng.

I need perl to configure.  I tried to configure (which just edits 
Makefile.config) using the non-uclibc part of BL2, where I do have perl, 
but it won't make.

How would I edit Makefile.config for use with uclibc?  ./configure just 
asks a few questions about where is libz.so and static vs shared and some 
other things that I left as defaults, all of which were appended to 
Makefile.config .

This file says there is a libvga.so and there is not - it must have found 
one in the regular /usr/lib - do I change to none? Same for 
LINUXSVGAHDR_DIR = /usr/include - change to none?
(I have not compiled libvga for uclibc and don't have svgalib headers, 
needed if I want to build a svgalib-based viewing program).

Configure added a CFLAGS line which looks like the one it got stuck on in 
make (the part after cc -c below)

Make: 
First it entered directory /src/netbpm-10.31/buildtools (which exists and 
contains typegen.co and a Makefile) then

cc -c -03 --ffast-math -pedantic -fon-common -Wall 
-wno-uninitialized -Wmissing-declarations ....  typegen.o typegen.c
cc:  Not a directory
make [3]: *** [typegen.o] Error 1

It exited

> David


To run perl I would need libdb.so.3 and libgdbm.so.... (I have the 
other dependencies).  How did you compile netpbm with uclibc?

Sindi