On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:23:38PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Saturday 07 March 2009 20:18:48 Ralf Treinen, vous avez écrit : > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:47:11PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > > Romain Beauxis a écrit : > > > > [...dh_install failure because of missing *.a files...] > > > > Was there any kind of change in the behaviour of dh_install ? > > > > > > AFAICT, dh_install has always failed with wildcards which doesn't expand > > > to anything. > > > > Isn't that a "feature" of bash, that *.a expands to literally "*.a" > > in case there is no match, instead of expanding to the empty string, > > as one would expect? > > I don't know, but it makes it very awkward. For instance: > *.a *.cm* META *.ml* > will be semantically different to: > *a > *.cm* > META > *.ml*
I think the wildcard expansion of GNU-make $(wildcard *.a) behaves differently, see sections 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 of the make documentation. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
