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Re: gettext makefile bug
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: gettext makefile bug |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:51:53 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Richard Pixley)
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:40:40 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Using file prefixes tends to be a bad idea. In this case, temporary
> files come out looking like t-/src/gettext-0.etc/man/page.3, which
> doesn't work very well.
Your patch breaks on systems where address@hidden exceeds the system limit for
the file-name length, and is truncated by the OS.
A better patch would be to to use t-`basename address@hidden, but I'm not sure
`basename' is portable enough.
- gettext makefile bug, Richard Pixley, 2001/08/09
- Re: gettext makefile bug,
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