Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:32:34 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH) |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Meelis Roos wrote: > > > RBJ> The main Makefile uses 'ls' to 'Make modules_install' If you have > > RBJ> color-ls installed, this will fail. > > > > Why? This must be a misconfiguration of color-ls. IIRC color-ls should > > output color to a tty _only_ by default, and normal output goes to pipes > > unless you force it to output color always. At least the color-ls that I > > use on my RH 5.2 system behaves so. > > > > The patch itself seems to be a good thing - one less thing to depend on. > > It defaults to this behaviour, but it entirely possible (though stupid) to > set color-ls to by default *always* use color unless it is explicitly > turned off. > You are correct, the source _did_ set it on, unless explicitly set off or to tty. Correct in both counts.
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