From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:34:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday;
X-Git-Tag: AUTOCONF-2.59c~765
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82fea9e4f7c5e677ca6a48405b2fbcd711243e46;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday;
it seems to have been a false alarm.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c40edc636..7a12c0fd6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2004-01-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
 
+	* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
+	Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
+	seems to have been a false alarm.
+
 	* bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
 	autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
 	* lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 7e7962310..a7c0f0693 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -11290,13 +11290,6 @@ exec > foo
 rm -f foo
 @end example
 
-@item @command{rm}
-@c ---------------
-@prindex @command{rm}
-Avoid @samp{rm -fr}; instead, use @samp{rm -f -r}.  @acronym{POSIX} says
-that scripts must not combine options into a single argument when
-invoking a standard utility like @command{rm}.
-
 @item @command{sed}
 @c ----------------
 @prindex @command{sed}