Subject: Re: bug#20733: coreutils build problem

From: Michael Felt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 02:12:04 +0200

I can certainly install a test partition and give someone access to work
through this. Just contact me privately and we can get it in motion. Takes
a bit less than 10 minutes to do a fresh install (compiler is in the backup
image being restored).

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
>> -man/test.1:      src/[$(EXEEXT)
>> +LBRACKET = [
>> +man/test.1:      src/$(LBRACKET)$(EXEEXT)
>>
>
> I'm afraid that doesn't work, no.  For example, with this Makefile:
>
> LBRACKET = [
> a: b/$(LBRACKET)
>         echo a b/$(LBRACKET)
>
> On AIX a plain 'make' will output:
>
>         echo a b/[
> a b/[
>
> whereas 'make LBRACKET=x' will fail with:
>
> make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target b/x from dependencies.
> Stop.
>
>