From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:20 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140112164520.GA6770@thyrsus.com> References: <20140112143733.B3F863811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <83iotp88sb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389545159 10059 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 16:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 17:46:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2OAo-0007fJ-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:46:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38511 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2OAo-0000jM-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2OAh-0000jE-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:46:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2OAd-0008Rf-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:59 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:58934 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2OAY-0008RM-PP; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 20A253811D4; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:45:20 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83iotp88sb.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168199 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond