Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:59:36AM CET: I think it's a fine idea to disallow bogus (and potentially dangerous) absolute names in automake's sanity.m4, but the existing code is not sufficient. Agreed. To demonstrate

Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:55 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that contains white space. Pardon, but white spaces in arbitrary directories are fairly common on Windows (My Files, Meine Dateien etc.) rsp. to users who migrate their

Re: Automake and whitespace in pwd

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:55:38AM CET: On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that contains white space. As Ralf alreay noted, it is not that rare with w32 users. On the other hand, since so many Makefile.am files are unprepared

Re: automake manual: distclean

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jan, Andreas, thanks for the bug report. * Andreas Schwab wrote on Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:48:32PM CET: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not quite portable -- unless GNU find, which implies a path of . if nothing else is specified, Solaris's explicitly requires a