[Slackbuilds-users] ntfs-3g version update and error

Patrick J. Volkerding volkerdi at slackware.com
Tue Apr 1 15:38:23 EDT 2008


Nathan D wrote:
> ntfs-3g is now on 1.2310
> 
> The latest stable version is 1.2310, released on March 10, 2008.
> 
> 
> I edited the ntfs-3g.SlackBuild to change the version number, but received
> this error on build  cp: cannot stat `COPYING': No such file or directory
> 
> In the source file instead of a file named COPYING there is a file named
> COPYING.LIB.  I edited the SlackBuild file and on line 69 changed COPYING to
> COPYING.LIB and the build completed, everything appears to work.

I usually go with COPYING* for this exact reason.  Then if it changes to 
COPYING3, or the LPGL appears (as it has in this case), it's handled 
already.

Take care,

Pat



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