Stepan Kasal wrote:
>
> Your proposal looks good, except I think it might be better to use single
> quotes around $(VPATH).
> And the quoting around $d, which I introduced, is redundant.
>
> That yields:
>
> `IFS=:; x=':$(VPATH)'; \
> for d in $$x; do \
> test -n $$d && d=$$d/; \
> test -f $${d}%SOURCE% && echo $$d && break;
> done`%SOURCE%
>
I like this version. But if you look at the original depend2.am
in am 1.9.6, there were some tics around %SOURCES%, too, i.e.
`IFS=:; x=':$(VPATH)'; \
for d in $$x; do \
test -n $$d && d=$$d/; \
test -f $${d}'%SOURCE%' && echo $$d && break;
done`'%SOURCE%'
Rgards
Harri
