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Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:59:25 +0200

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:46:26AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> > [...]
> >  Jim> * src/Makefile.am (bin_PROGRAMS): Add "[".
> >  Jim> (__SOURCES): New var.
> >  Jim> * src/test.c (LBRACKET): Define to 0 if not defined.
> > [...]
> >
> > Is NEWS-OS 4.2R something you care about?  Make variables
>
> Do people still use that OS?

No idea, all I know about this OS is its name and this Make
limitation.  Googling for "NEWS-OS" and "automake" shows two bug
reports in 2000 and 2001, including the complaint about `_'-variables.

> I seem to remember that NEWS-OS (Sony?) was nearly nonexistent
> 8 or 10 years ago.  They were also responsible for my writing
> some horrible hack wrt EXIT_FAILURE or EXIT_SUCCESS.
> On that system (maybe not the same release), one of those was
> defined to the wrong value!

Interesting :)




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