Re: How to use BUILT_SOURCES in non-recursive, multi-directory project?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Thomas Dickey wrote on Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:13:07PM CET:
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > > dirname and basename are not portable to ancient hosts.  In practice
> > > they will work fine, though.  I'd write
> >
> > I know that dirname is not, but what platform did not support basename?
>
> No idea myself.  Where does dirname not work?  :-)

hmm - I can remember when it was a problem (around 1990), but can't
recall whether it was Apollo SR9, SunOS 3 or HPUX.  You did say
"ancient"...

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