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Re: lynx-dev OS/390 1.2 patch
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dickey |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev OS/390 1.2 patch |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:10:14 -0500 (EST) |
>
> Hello, Lyncei,
>
> I'm hoist by my own petard. After TED kindly incorporated one
> of my suggestions, with editorial revisions, I find it breaks
> OS/390 1.2. The clear bug in the shell's handling of environment
> variables is fixed by OS/2390 2.4. I feel no urgency to accommodate
> an obscure OS at an obsolescent release (2.7 is now in beta), so
> it's within the editor's prerogative to regard the attached patch
> as merely informative.
thanks - will see.
> BTW, I'm curious about the use of "$(SHELL) -c" in a few, but
> certainly not all, places in makefile. If it's necessary to
that was partly experimental - I withdrew one part of that change
because another obscure machine (CLIX) doesn't like it.
> avoid parsing techniques of (e.g.) the dreaded C-shell, shouldn't
> this be done throughout? In fact, maybe the command I rewrote
> should be:
>
> ! $(SHELL) -c 'PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH; export PATH;
> $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh'
>
> -- gil
>
> ==========================================================
> diff -brc orig/lynx2-8-2/makefile.in lynx2-8-2/makefile.in
> *** orig/lynx2-8-2/makefile.in Sat Jan 16 15:59:09 1999
> --- lynx2-8-2/makefile.in Sat Jan 16 16:04:44 1999
> ***************
> *** 392,398 ****
>
> cfg_defs.h : $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh config.cache lynx_cfg.h
> @rm -f $@
> ! PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH $(SHELL) -c '$(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh'
>
> install-cfg : $(libdir)
> -mv -f $(libdir)/lynx.cfg $(libdir)/lynx.oldcfg
> --- 392,398 ----
>
> cfg_defs.h : $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh config.cache lynx_cfg.h
> @rm -f $@
> ! PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH; export PATH; $(SHELL) -c '$(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh'
>
> install-cfg : $(libdir)
> -mv -f $(libdir)/lynx.cfg $(libdir)/lynx.oldcfg
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