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

[Thomas Dickey]

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).

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