SunOS4 compatibility (was: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory)

2009-03-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding automake@; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/3439 ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:17:06AM CET: --- a/lib/am/distdir.am +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am @@ -202,10 +202,16 @@ endif %?TOPDIR_P% ## directory exists only in $(srcdir),

Re: SunOS4 compatibility (was: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory)

2009-03-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Oh brother. According to autoconf.info, SunOS4 'cp' did not support the -f option. Anyone think we still need 'make dist' to work there? I don't think that support for 'make dist' on a bare system is necessary. This is not even close to a modern

Re: automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory

2009-03-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
whether to apply this patch. Cheers, Ralf 2009-03-13 Peter Breitenlohner p...@mppmu.mpg.de Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de For PR automake/533: DISTFILES containing a directory and files in that directory. When the source tree contains non-writable files