Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/05/24/02:00:45
On May 24, 2000, Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> In message <3924D74A DOT 352A36A6 AT softhome DOT net>you write:
>> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> My point is on a unix system ':' is an allowed file/directory name.
I understand your point. However, if you have some `:' as part of
some of your build directories, you'll hardly be able to build
anything, since `:' will get `make' so confused that you'll quickly
give up on using it. Therefore, using this expression to match full
pathnames has been widely accepted by portable configuration packages
such as autoconf and libtool (I'm not sure automake has needed any
such tests). Refusing to use it in GCC won't bring us any advantage.
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