* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:35:43AM CET: > On Saturday 18 December 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > +# Try also with `:=', to ensure the parser is not unduly confused > > > +# into thinking that it's an unportable assignement operator. > > > > This comment is bogus, right? There is no such thing as ':=' within > > $(var:A=B), > but there is in $(var:=x) (below this is "$(t1:=.sh)"). > > > and the code below does not use := to assign variables. > > > Indeed, and so we want to enssure the automake parser does not > (errenously) think we are trying to do so. > > > What do you mean with this text? "Also try an empty match suffix."? > > > Yes; maybe a comment like this would be better? > > # Also try an empty match suffix, to ensure that the `:=' in there is > # not confused by the parser with an unportable assignement operator.
Yes, thanks. > > These 'test -x' commands fail on MinGW/MSYS because the file system does > > not actually have execute permission information. > > > Ouch. > > > Instead, it is emulated by looking at the file, and returning 0 if the > > file starts with, e.g., a COFF header or with '#!'. > > (The same heuristic is used when executing a script as well.) > > > > You can thus fix this by either creating actual scripts in above rules > > and the file creation below, or by removing the tests here. I'm not > > sure which you prefer. > > > I'd prefer the former, to keep the coverage a little bigger on non-MinGW > systems. Is that ok? Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks, Ralf
