From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140112164520.GA6770@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iotp88sb.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> Shouldn't that be
>
> VCSWITNESS="$vcswitness"
>
> instead?
No. You're in a Makefile context. The $$ needs to be doubled or
it won't be passed to the shell. I tested this.
> That possibility was considered and rejected, for the reasons that
> Stefan explained.
I have not seen that explanation.
> So you have just made things worse, not better.
The code wasn't working, so deleting it didn't leave us any worse
off. I did test before posting.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 14:37 VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 15:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 15:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 16:45 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-12 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 18:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-12 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-13 2:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-12 19:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 19:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 20:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 21:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-13 15:41 ` Richard Stallman
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