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Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

>  Raja> IIRC, it was added by Alexandre Oliva.  The only reason I can think
>  Raja> of is a really really broken VPATH implementation: one that fails to
>  Raja> attach to the source filename the VPATH component it found the source in.
> The patch was submitted by Gordon Matzigkeit:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2000/msg00038.html

I can't say I remember the circumstances, sorry.

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