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

[Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> 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"...
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.




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