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RE: problem with info file backup restoration
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Jan Beulich'" <jbeulich at novell dot com>, <bug-automake at gnu dot org>
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:55:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: problem with info file backup restoration
On 30 June 2006 14:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The code in lib/am/texibuild.am uses a construct `echo "./$@" | sed
> 's|[^/]*$$||'` to obtain the directory of the files to be restored.
> However, this obviously doesn't work when the directory is absolute (i.e.
> when I have the sources on /usr/local/src and build in a separate output
> directory under /home). Why can't this simply be `dirname "./$@"`/ ?
Isn't this a hang-over from the way info files used to always be built
in-tree even when you were doing a parallel-obj-dir build, and didn't someone
do something about the in-tree info files lately that probably omitted to fix
this as an oversight?
cheers,
DaveK
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