Strange problems compiling teTeX 3.0

Christoph Bier christoph.bier at web.de
Wed Aug 10 08:48:17 UTC 2005


Colin Watson schrieb am 10.08.2005 00:08:

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:38:14AM +0200, Christoph Bier wrote:

[...]

>>>>I never observed such a thing and I use Debian for more than seven
>>>>years now. Actually the same command succeeds on Debian Sarge.
>>>
>>>This behaviour of shell redirections is standard across all Unix
>>>variants of which I'm aware.
>>
>>I have to learn more about sudo. But you deleted an important part
>>of my message. I wrote: »If I run this command as root both
>>configure and configure.log are empty files afterwards! Strange,
>>isn't it? I never observed such a thing and [...]«. That's the thing
>>I never observed.
> 
> It honestly just looks like the result of a typo to me, such as
> accidentally typing '> configure' instead of '> configure.log' at some
> point with a command that produced no output.

I'd really like to disprove you. But you are right again, I looked
in the bash_history of root and it was a typo :-(. Shame on me! I
need holiday ...

Regards,
     Christoph *meek*
-- 
+++ Typografie-Regeln: http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf (1.4)





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