Sender: oliva AT ic DOT unicamp DOT br
To: law AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, gcc-patches AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org,
        DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fixproto fix
References: <10288 DOT 959147375 AT upchuck>
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva AT cygnus DOT com>
Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
Date: 24 May 2000 03:00:05 -0300
In-Reply-To: Jeffrey A Law's message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 23:49:35 -0600"
Message-ID: <orwvkkbi8q.fsf@tamanduatei.dcc.unicamp.br>
Lines: 20
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id CAA28781
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

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.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva    Enjoy Guaranį, see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company        aoliva@{redhat, cygnus}.com
Free Software Developer and Evangelist    CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp
oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}   Write to mailing lists, not to me