[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #2154: Cactus: suppress interaction when using mv in make files

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#2154: Cactus: suppress interaction when using mv in make files
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  Reporter:  Roland Haas  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  review
  Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:
 Component:  Cactus       |    Version:  development version
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by Erik Schnetter):

 I am concerned because we are using "mv" in many places. Logically, we
 either should use "mv -f" everywhere, or nowhere. Otherwise we're
 implementing a work-around for a poorly understood problem in one place.
 That means possibly that we'll never encounter the problem again, and the
 work-around wasn't necessary, or that we'll have to implement the same
 work-around in many other places.

 Cactus uses autoconf variables for many tools, including "ar", "ranlbi",
 "rm", "tar", etc. If you think that "mv -f" is beneficial, then I'd rather
 introduce a new configure variable "MV" that either can be set (on this
 system), or is set by default, to "mv -f".

 I would draw a parallel to "rm" and "rm -f" in implementing this.

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