Re: gawk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:19AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> And make can't cope with the :'s in the directory.
>
> Who should see this bug? Turtle for creating the directory in the
> first place? Gawk for using a colon in the version number? Or Make
> for not coping well with:
I have raised this on debian-policy, and we should give them a couple of days
to consider all points. But my current opinion is that gawk should be fixed.
Almost I gave in, but there is really no point in working round such stuff,
and Niels added a very nice real life example where it could fail for anyone
(not just turtle).
> PWD=`pwd` (This is actually defined in debian/rules, but it's a common
> construct)
It depends on where you use it. Using it in make rules is a no-no, if you
ask me. Someone pointed out that CURDIR should be used in make, btw.
Thanks,
Marcus
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