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coreutils build problem

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Message #145 received at 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20733: coreutils build problem
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 02:12:04 +0200

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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 <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> 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.
>
>

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