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  • From: Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
  • To: "sm, discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] [sm-discuss] several pieces of sw under "/"
  • Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:54:41 -0600

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.




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