Re: SGI mode depcomp breaks when '.' appears in source filenames twice

[Raja R Harinath]

Robert Boehne <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been having some problems with depencency tracking under
> IRIX with the native compiler, it didn't help to use GNU sed,
> so I tracked the problem down to this line from depcomp:
> 
>  sed 's/^[^\.]*\.o://' | tr '

Try changing that to

  sed 's/^.*\.o://' | tr '

This should be safe.  I don't see why the original tried to avoid
'.'s.  The regexp is limited to the first ':' -- so the '.*' cannot
swallow any more of the line.

- Hari
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