On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dang. That is just wonky. I've got RedHat 6.1 installed. The relevant > > packages are: > > > > make-3.77-6 > > bash-1.14.7-16 > > autoconf-2.13-5 > > libtool-1.3.4-3 > > > > What do you have? > > mandrake 7.1 > Autoconf version 2.14.1 > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3.5 (1.385.2.206 2000/05/27 11:12:27) > > I would have to dig to get my bash version.
Mandrake is rpm-based: $ rpm -q make bash I think the make version might actually be the most important part. > > I've got no problem with the change, but I'd like to understand what is > > going wrong. Why is SUBDIRS always null? > > > > Hmm. I wonder if it does the substitution for SUBDIRS when it reads the rule > > (via the include) rather than when the rule is invoked. In all of the > > makefiles, SUBDIRS is set after the include. Could that be the problem > > you're seeing? > > Could be. I didn't really investigate, because I was able to solve it by > just mimicing Apache. Yah... I saw that code in Apache and decided to simplify... Oops. :-) Like I said: we should keep it, but "why?" (and I'll comment the code with the reason...) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
