Re: Patch for autoconf/145

[Ralf Corsepius]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On Jan 31, 2001, Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 29, 2001, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> +# VPATH is dangerous, so comment remove it if it's just @address@hidden
> 
> >> +  ac_vpsub=['s/^[   ]*VPATH[        ]*=[    address@hidden@[     ]*$//']
> 
> > What if srcdir contains odd characters such as sed-rx meta-characters
> > or slashes? :-D
> 
> Doh!  For some reason, I thought @srcdir@ would have been replaced by
> $srcdir.
>  
> I suggest accepting a few other variants: $(srcdir) and ${srcdir}.
IIRC, some makes do not accept variables in VPATH?

Ralf
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