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    SubjectRe: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH)
    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.

    Well color-ls just writes to stdout. It is not, as you say misconfigured.
    It defaults to a crappy brown color for executables. If you do (as
    specified) in /etc/profile...

    eval `dircolors`

    It only then reads /etc/DIR_COLORS and creates a COLOR_LS environment
    variable, containing color information just like 'termcap'.

    Unless you specifically alias ls as 'ls --color=no' it will generate
    color. Since the shell doesn't reference /etc/profile, I can't turn
    off its defaults. A previous version of 'color-ls' worked fine because
    if defaulted to no color. I updated to the latest version so I could
    get rid of the last of my 'a.out' binaries. This is how I discovered
    the problem.

    Shell scripts should minimize the use of tools, so I think that
    removing 'ls' is a good thing.

    Cheers,
    Dick Johnson
    ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
    Penguin : Linux version 2.2.4 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
    Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.


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