Re: Make: Obscure bug with wildcards

["Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@ginac.de>]

On 6 Feb 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[...]
>         I suggest that this means that older debianized 3.78.1 makes
>  worked correctly; and The only changes made in make in this period
>  (apart from the changelog, rules, and postinst files) are shown below:
>         
> Index: Makefile.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/local/src/Master/debian/make/Makefile.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.5
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -B -b -w -r1.1.1.5 -r1.2
> --- Makefile.in 1999/10/11 16:34:14     1.1.1.5
> +++ Makefile.in 1999/12/01 17:48:35     1.2
> @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
>         @for file in $(DISTFILES); do \
>           d=$(srcdir); \
>           if test -d $$d/$$file; then \
> -           cp -pr $$/$$file $(distdir)/$$file; \
> +           cp -pr $$d/$$file $(distdir)/$$file; \
>           else \
>             test -f $(distdir)/$$file \
>             || ln $$d/$$file $(distdir)/$$file 2> /dev/null \
> ======================================================================

Yepp, a minor bugfix triggered from a more recent automake.  This cannot
be the reason.

Regards
    -rbk.
-- 
Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>