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[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I realized today there's a strange buch of files under "/", which
shouldn't be there:

% ls -l /
total 6.1G
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  779 Dec 21 19:18 codeset.m4
-rw-------   1 root root 772K Nov 26  2012 core
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.0K Dec 21 19:18 fcntl-o.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  15K Dec 21 19:18 gettext.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  854 Dec 21 19:18 glibc21.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  797 Dec 21 19:18 glibc2.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 7.4K Dec 21 19:18 iconv.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.3K Dec 21 19:18 intdiv0.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  923 Dec 21 19:18 intldir.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  12K Dec 21 19:18 intl.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.4K Dec 21 19:18 intlmacosx.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.1K Dec 21 19:18 intmax.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  953 Dec 21 19:18 inttypes_h.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.2K Dec 21 19:18 inttypes-pri.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.3K Dec 21 19:18 lcmessage.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.4K Dec 21 19:18 lib-ld.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  33K Dec 21 19:18 lib-link.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 8.3K Dec 21 19:18 lib-prefix.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.2K Dec 21 19:18 lock.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4.4K Dec 21 19:18 longlong.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.3K Dec 21 19:18 nls.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  19K Dec 21 19:18 po.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.5K Dec 21 19:18 printf-posix.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.9K Dec 21 19:18 progtest.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.9K Dec 21 19:18 size_max.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  929 Dec 21 19:18 stdint_h.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  14K Dec 21 19:18 threadlib.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.1K Dec 21 19:18 uintmax_t.m4
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.2K Dec 21 19:18 visibility.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  747 Dec 21 19:18 wchar_t.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  982 Dec 21 19:18 wint_t.m4
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  434 Dec 21 19:18 xsize.m4

Several of them match what some spells provide, but I have no clue how
they got in "/", neither if it's safe to remove them.

% gaze from /longlong.m4
gettext-0.18.3.1: /usr/share/aclocal/longlong.m4

% gaze from /core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/geometry/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/geometry/multi/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/log/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/phoenix/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/spirit/home/classic/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/spirit/home/phoenix/core
boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/xpressive/detail/core
directfb-1.7.1: /usr/include/directfb-internal/core
irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/core
irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/fe-common/core
irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/irc/core
linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/drivers/memstick/core
linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/drivers/mmc/core
linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/net/core
linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/sound/core
numpy-1.8.0: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core

But they exist in the directory they're meant to be.  So I'm not sure
what are those files doing there...

Any hints?  Also, would it be considered safe to just plain removing them?

Thanks,

-- 
Javier.