Re: [Groff] building process stuck when building groff-current using MinGW

[Yu-ning Feng]

2007/9/7, Yu-ning Feng <address@hidden>:
> 2007/9/7, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > mkdir -p -- D:/groff-cvs/share/groff/1.19 .3
> > > mkdir: cannot create directory `D:/groff-cvs/share/groff/1.19\001.3':
> > > No such file or directory
> >
> > This looks like a broken `cat' program on msys which doesn't handle
> >
> >   version=`cat $(top_srcdir)/VERSION`
>
> This is line 49 in Makefile. Line 51 says,
>
>   revision=`sed -e 's/^0$$//' -e 's/^[1-9].*$$/.&/' $(top_srcdir)/REVISION`
>
> I wonder the meaning of $$. I tried this command in linux manually.
> After some experiment(revision=`sed -e 's/^0$$//' -e 's/^[1-9].*$$//'
> REVISION`, remove .& from the command), I found the pattern is not
> found. So... maybe the Makefile is also responsible?
>
> --
> Yu-ning Feng
>

That is related to make's expansion mechanism. Very sorry for the noise.

-- 
Yu-ning Feng