GNU bug report logs - #20733
coreutils build problem

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,  Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#20733: coreutils build problem
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 15:10:32 -0700

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.
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