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Re: coreutils tests/Makefile.am assumes "make -C"
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: coreutils tests/Makefile.am assumes "make -C" |
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Wed, 12 May 2004 14:29:54 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Solaris "make" doesn't have the -C option, but coreutils CVS uses it
> in a couple of places; I noticed it with "make check". Here's a patch.
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> 2004-05-12 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
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> Don't assume that "make -C" works; Solaris "make" doesn't have -C.
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> * src/Makefile.am (all_programs.list): New rule, copied from
> man/Makefile.am and tests/Makefile.am, except that we use the
> system tr rather than ./tr and we don't use tr -s.
By the way, why do you prefer not to use tr's -s option?
It's also used in the check-README rule just below.