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

[Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III wrote:
>
> > On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 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"...
> > The dirname utility originated in System III. It has evolved  
> > through the System V releases to a version that matches the  
> > requirements specified in this description in System V Release 3.  
> > 4.3 BSD and earlier versions did not include dirname.
>
> yes - for instance, Apollo supported BSD 4.3 and Systerm V  
> environments.
> Scripts written for the latter could have used dirname, while the  
> former
> could not.
>
> (There are still hobbyists running Apollos of course - not I).
Both Apollo, and HP-UX were SysV/BSD hybrids. Sun's under SunOS
(pre Solaris) were BSD.
   trt
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