Hello, On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2730/focus=2740> > > Eric's patch seems to indicate that line 92 needs changed, too. > > (I haven't tested any on w32.) > > I don't quite understand that myself; ISTM that having -n in $ls_command > should do the job for both cases.
A wild guess: Though the current situation is this (quoting Eric): $ \ls -ld / drwxrwx---+ 14 eblake Users 0 Feb 2 07:58 / $ \ls -lLd doc/m4.texinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 221922 Mar 1 14:50 doc/m4.texinfo it might be possible that even the user or group owner of / would have a blank it its name. (With Cygwin, one never knows.) So it is safer to use -n with ls /, too. Just guessing, I'm not a Cygwin user. Stepan Kasal