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From: | Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III |
Subject: | Re: How to use BUILT_SOURCES in non-recursive, multi-directory project? |
Date: | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:26:27 -0800 |
On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
The dirname utility originated in System III. It has evolved through the System V releases to a version that matches the requirements specified in this description in System V Release 3. 4.3 BSD and earlier versions did not include dirname.On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:* Thomas Dickey wrote on Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:13:07PM CET:On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:dirname and basename are not portable to ancient hosts. In practicethey will work fine, though. I'd writeI know that dirname is not, but what platform did not support basename?No idea myself. Where does dirname not work? :-)hmm - I can remember when it was a problem (around 1990), but can't recall whether it was Apollo SR9, SunOS 3 or HPUX. You did say "ancient"...
-- Thomas R. Treadway Computer Scientist Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab 7000 East Avenue, L-270 Livermore, CA 94550-0611
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