Re: automake 1.7.2b, tests/depcomp3.test and DJGPP

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
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> >>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
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> [...]
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>  Richard> How about the change below for the distcheck target?
>  Richard> This makes all the tests listed above pass for me. I
>  Richard> haven't touched anything in tests/.
> 
> That looks great.  I've installed the appended patch.

Thanks!

>  Richard> Note that there can be more than 26 DOS drives, so
>  Richard> matching alphabetic characters isn't enough. That's
>  Richard> why I've used [^:\\/] below, to match the first
>  Richard> character of the filename.
> 
> Six years ago, when I was still a DOS user, I used to amaze my
> friends by showing them my list of drive letters (A,C...M,Q,U,V,
> if I recall correct).  If I knew I could have had more than 26
> letters I'd certainly have tried.  Out of curiosity, what comes
> after Z?

I don't know. I tried to find out by searching my archives of the
djgpp-workers mailing list, but I could only find a statement that there are
more than 26 drives. I also tried searching a fairly old copy of the Windows
Platform SDK, but that didn't help. I also tried experimenting a little with
Windows & mapping network drives, but it only accepted alphabetic characters.

> FWIW the [a-zA-Z] test is wired in other places like depcomp.
[snip]

I'll take a look for those cases.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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