[Bashdb-devel] Re: ugly code in install-data-hook

[Eric B. <eb...@by...>]

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According to Eric Blake on 2/16/2006 10:29 PM:
> The following code in Makefile.am's install-data-hook has a severe bug,
> and I'm not sure how to work around it.  Furthermore, the code is tied to
> GNU make, and is not portable to other make programs:

But, as long as we are requiring GNU make, the attached hack seemed to do
the trick (it depends on the -ef operator in GNU coreutils' test, and I
don't know of any other easy way to prove that /foo and /foo/ are (not)
the same directory in makefile syntax).  Please don't install this hack as
an official patch; rather, use it as a starting point for what needs to be
improved in this hook to overcome its current bug.

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Eric Blake             eb...@by...
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