Re: VPATH elimination by configure

[Derek R. Price]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> > VPATH is just set to srcdir?  So then, I'm in favor of Derek's patch
> > which seems finer that the current one, and updating the Autoconf
> > documentation to explain exactly what happens.
>
> Here's an even slightly better version.  It will remove :address@hidden@:?,

One more quick mod.  I just replaced the second two occurrences of [ \t]*VPATH[ 
\t]* with [^=]* for brevity.  Use the makefile from my previous email for 
testing.

Derek

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/^[     ]*VPATH[        ]*=[    
]*/{s/:*\$(srcdir):*/:/;s/:*\${srcdir}:*/:/;s/:address@hidden@:*/:/;s/^\([^=]*=[
        ]*\):*/\1/;s/:*$//;/^[^=]*=[    ]*$/d;}

/^[     ]*VPATH[        ]*=[    ]*/{
        # the next three lines take out variations on srcdir substitutions
        s/:*\$(srcdir):*/:/
        s/:*\${srcdir}:*/:/
        s/:address@hidden@:*/:/
        # next two lines remove leading and trailing ':'s from VPATH
        s/^\([^=]*=[    ]*\):*/\1/
        s/:*$//
        # remove an empty VPATH
        /^[^=]*=[       ]*$/d
}