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

Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo (jkaivo@ndn.net)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:01:54 -0800 (PST)

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.

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