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Re: Running a plain ./config.status at top level
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:06:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: Running a plain ./config.status at top level
- References: <mv465ppgeow.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr><2003-04-09-20-34-25+32318+duret_g@lrde.epita.fr><1106.82.64.23.203.1049914381.squirrel@www.lrde.epita.fr><2003-04-10-00-05-50+2954+duret_g@lrde.epita.fr><20030430132717.A22688@telepres.com> <d9isshazxh.fsf@cs.umn.edu><20030512173231.B15844@telepres.com>
>>> "Eric" == Eric Siegerman <erics@telepres.com> writes:
[...]
Eric> So SysV and XPG3 both *dropped* support for ::-rules. Then POSIX
Eric> didn't look far enough back into history, and so assumed it was a
Eric> BSD-ism. *sigh*
Thanks for digging all this.
>> > Does someone know a Make implementation
>> > that doesn't support them?
Eric> Never heard of one, but then I'm hardly an authority :-/
Eric> What does all of this means for Automake? Beats me...
Eric> On second thought, maybe AM should just go ahead and use the
Eric> feature,
Ok, I'll change these rules. If it doesn't work somewhere,
then at least we'll learn something.
[...]
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz