From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:33:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: do it right
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0p~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0be1bfab98c14715fe84de4b84243604534551c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

do it right
---

diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
index 5d447c65b1..463dfafe0b 100644
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -134,12 +134,14 @@ announcement: NEWS ChangeLog $(distdir).tar.gz
 	)
 
 writable-files:
-	for file in $(distdir).tar.gz ../release/$(distdir).tar.gz \
-	    ../release/$(xd-delta); do \
-	  test -w $$file \
-	    || { echo ERROR: $$file is not writable; fail=1; }; \
-	done; \
-	test "$$fail" && exit 1
+	for file in $(distdir).tar.gz ../release/$(distdir).tar.gz	\
+	    ../release/$(xd-delta); do					\
+	  test -e $$file						\
+	    || continue;						\
+	  test -w $$file						\
+	    || { echo ERROR: $$file is not writable; fail=1; };		\
+	done;								\
+	test "$$fail" && exit 1 || :
 
 alpha: writable-files po-check
 	$(MAKE) cvs-dist