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Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:20 -0500 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> Shouldn't that be
>
> VCSWITNESS="$vcswitness"
>
> instead?
No. You're in a Makefile context. The $$ needs to be doubled or
it won't be passed to the shell. I tested this.
> That possibility was considered and rejected, for the reasons that
> Stefan explained.
I have not seen that explanation.
> So you have just made things worse, not better.
The code wasn't working, so deleting it didn't leave us any worse
off. I did test before posting.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, David Kastrup, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, David Kastrup, 2014/01/12