Re: Pathnames with two (or more) slashes in Makefile.c

[Jan Djärv]

Sascha Wilde skrev:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:

>   A pathname consisting of a single slash shall resolve to the root
>   directory of the process. A null pathname shall not be successfully
>   resolved. A pathname that begins with two successive slashes may be
>   interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although more than
>   two leading slashes shall be treated as a single slash.
>
> On GNU Systems (and most unixoid systems I know), two leading slashes
> are not interpreted in any special way, but like three and more
> slashes: they are treated as one.
>
> So the problem is, that the double slash is written unquoted to
> Makefile.c where it gets interpreted as a comment.
>
> This is IMO a bug.
>
> When generating Makefile.c consecutive slashes hould either be reduced
> to one or appropriately quoted.

Actually it was a bug in my patch, I should not use #define if a double slash 
may be present.  I briefly checked the other #define:s in Makefile.in and 
mostly the valuse comes from s/*.h or m/*.h, so we have control over these.

I've checked in a fix, please try it.

Thanks,

        Jan D.