Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-09-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Monday 13 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > Given the information Dave provided, it seems to me that the only > > way a leading `//' could be problematic for the automake code in > > question is when a file path specified in a prog_SOURCES begins > > with `//' (and this pa

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-09-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:06:33PM CEST: > At Friday 16 July 2010, Dave Hart wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:59 UTC, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > > At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ral

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Friday 16 July 2010, Dave Hart wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:59 UTC, Stefano Lattarini > > wrote: > > At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> No, the patch should not modify initial double slash, that is > >> not the same as a single slash in general. > > > > Why? > > I h

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Dave, Stefano, * Dave Hart wrote on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:47:53AM CEST: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:59 UTC, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> No, the patch should not modify initial double slash, that is not > >> the same as a single slash

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Hart
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:59 UTC, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> No, the patch should not modify initial double slash, that is not >> the same as a single slash in general. > Why? I hope it's not rude for me to dive in from a lurking position. The

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > No, the patch should not modify initial double slash, that is not > the same as a single slash in general. Why? > Ok with that fixed. I'll wait an answer before fixing that. And obviously, any push is suspended until we work this out. Regards,

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:38:28PM CEST: > At Saturday 15 May 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > [From a thread in bug-autom...@gnu.org] > > [] > > > > Hello Ralf. I went ahead and wrote a patch to apply y

Re: [PATCH] Work around a bug in Solaris make's file-inclusion mechanism.

2010-07-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Saturday 15 May 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [From a thread in bug-autom...@gnu.org] > [] > > Hello Ralf. I went ahead and wrote a patch to apply your changes. > I added my name too in the ChangeLog entry, since I wrote a t