Toralf F�rster sent me the comments added to the bug report by SpanKY:
> > >From comment #5 of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53881 :
> >
> > you should reply back to that gnu guy ... the error is in coreutils,
> > it is NOT a problem with make
Negative. This is not an error in coreutils. The quoted text does
not appear anywhere in coreutils. It was perhaps added by a gentoo
patch? Or perhaps it is from a completely different version of
coreutils than the 5.2.0 version quoted.
> > if you review man/Makefile.am, you'll see this tidbit:
> > .x.1:
> > @rm -f $@
> > rm -fr $t; \
> > @echo "Updating man page $@"; \
> > ...
Negative. That text does NOT appear in coreutils-5.2.0. The text of
this snippet from coreutils-5.2.0 which is the version stated in the
bug report is the following:
.x.1:
@rm -f $@
@echo "Updating man page $@"; \
mkdir $t; \
(cd $t && $(LN_S) ../../src/$(mapped_name)$(EXEEXT) $*$(EXEEXT)); \
$(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/help2man \
--info-page='$(PACKAGE) $*' \
--include=$(srcdir)/$*.x \
--output=$@ $t/$*$(EXEEXT)
@chmod a-w $@
@rm -rf $t
If you see something different than the above then you have a modified
version of coreutils-5.2.0. You can verify this yourself by checking
the pristine sources.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/
> > the subtle bug here is that putting '; \' at the ends of the lines
> > like that tells make to invoke this all in one shell
That is not a bug. Being able to run multiple commands in one
subshell process is an important feature of make. That is behavior as
expected from make.
I am guessing that gentoo includes a patch in their version 5.2.0-r2
that adds this modification to the source as an inadvertant bug. Not
being familiar with gentoo packaging I don't know where to look to see
the patches that they have applied. If you would educate me on this I
would be able to look at to review what the gentoo packaging is
doing. I am sure the problem will be found there.
Bob
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