| * acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Remove VPATH lines if srcdir=., to
| work around Sun make bug. From Karl Berry.
Does it still applies ? How can I reproduce this ?
I'd like to upgrade this section with other VPATH limitations
but I do not understand this one.
All the details have clearly escaped my mind in the intervening 8 years
:), but going purely from those comments it seemed any VPATH assignment
caused :: rules to break. Thus
VPATH=.
foo::
@echo foo1
foo::
@echo foo2
would only echo foo1.
Anyway, I would guess this must have been about SunOS 4, as Solaris 2
barely existed in 1994.
And anyway again, I still see no harm in removing VPATH lines if
srcdir=., for simplicity.
Hope this helps,
karl
