[PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

[Clifford Wolf]

Hi,

I wrote a little patch to aclocal for wildcard matchin in the dirlist
parser:

        http://www.clifford.at/priv/aclocal-dirlist-glob.patch

> Clifford Wolf:
>       Added wildcard support to the dirlist parser
> 
> --- automake-1.9.3/aclocal.in 2005-10-17 13:06:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ automake-1.9.3/aclocal.in 2005-10-17 13:07:59.000000000 +0200
> @@ -672,11 +672,11 @@
>         # Ignore '#' lines.
>         next if /^#/;
>         # strip off newlines and end-of-line comments
> -       s/\s*\#.*$//;
> +       s/\s*\#.*$//; chomp;
>         chomp ($contents=$_);
> -       if (-d $contents )
> +       foreach $contents (glob)
>           {
> -           push (@dirlist, $contents);
> +           push (@dirlist, $contents) if -d $contents;
>           }
>       }
>        close (DEFAULT_DIRLIST);

With this patch applied it is possible to use entries such as
"/opt/*/share/aclocal" in the /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist file.

what do you think? how are my chances to get this applied in the official
tree?

yours,
 - clifford

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