Re: [PATCH] docs: more details about make VPATH rewriting woes

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:21:16AM CEST:
> On Thursday 15 September 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:35:37AM CEST:
> > > On Wednesday 14 September 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > It applies to any word that is surrounded by whitespace (or beginning or
> > > > end of command line), regardless of shell syntax.  Please don't
> > > > formulate it like Solaris make would understand shell syntax when
> > > > rewriting rules, IMHO that's confusing and makes it harder to understand
> > > > the issue.
> > > >
> > > You're right, my previous formulation was somewhat confusing in this
> > > regard.  What about the squash-in below?
> > 
> > Fine with me, thanks.
> >
> Should I take this as an ACK to push?

On my side, sure.  I think Eric would have complained if he wanted to.
:-)

> > also, for American
> > English type setting, you'd write an emdash as three hyphens and no
> > space right before and afterwards,
> >
> That is just horribly ugly IMHO, almost as bad as a final dot inside
> double quotes.  I refuse to voluntarily use those formatting in the
> text I write :-)  I went for the comma instead.

You dislike the final dot inside double quotes?  But in typeset
text, the spacing can be really ugly when it's outside.
But I digress ...

Cheers,
Ralf