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Re: Running a plain ./config.status at top level
- From: Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>
- To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- Cc: Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:25:26 -0500
- 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><2003-05-13-00-06-52+4351+duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>
Hi,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
>>>> "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.
Also, X11 'imake' appears to use double-colon rules extensively.
I think they'd have discovered any problems.
- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu