Re: automake/70: With OSF1's make, installing headers can go wrong

[Caolan McNamara <caolan at csn dot ul dot ie>]

The following reply was made to PR automake/70; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Caolan McNamara <caolan@csn.ul.ie>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Cc: Caolan McNamara <caolan@csn.ul.ie>, automake-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: automake/70: With OSF1's make, installing headers can go wrong
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:45:41 +0100 (IST)

 On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:
 > Caolan> I would imagine that libwhatever.h being swapped through VPATH
 > Caolan> magic is a defendable position for OSF's make, seems
 > Caolan> reasonable enough.
 > 
 > I disagree.  This seems quite broken.  Suppose the file is called
 > "list".  Will it still do a textual substitution, rendering the code
 > un-runnable?
 
 A quick test and yep, they do the moral equivalent of running the
 whole lot through sed, ignoring any sort of escaping. The mystery
 is resolved. Only a small issue anyhow, build and installing from
 srcdir is the standard route for the majority. The only reason 
 that I ever use OSF/Tru64 or whatever its called is to test to 
 see if my packages truly are portable and this one caught my eye. 
 
 C.
 
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