fastjar/Makefile.in is generated by a bad automake

H . J . Lu hjl@valinux.com
Wed Feb 21 13:03:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:01:18PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "HJ" == H J Lu <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> HJ> I believe fastjar/Makefile.in is generated by a bad automake. I
> HJ> noticed the same problem years ago in binutils. Around line 325,
> HJ> there
> 
> HJ> 	@for file in $(DISTFILES); do \
> HJ> 	  d=$(srcdir); \
> HJ> 	  if test -d $$d/$$file; then \
> HJ> 	    cp -pr $$/$$file $(distdir)/$$file; \
> HJ> 		   ^^^
> 
> This is true but irrelevant.
> This rule is never used by the gcc project.
> 

But I don't think it makes it OK.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)



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