From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36248 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gaute B Strokkenes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Makefile bug. Date: 17 May 2001 01:19:15 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: Gaute Strokkenes Message-ID: <4ar8xoygho.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> References: <4ag0e5rdsu.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <4ay9rxbo6h.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <4ag0e5wf2f.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171866 7577 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Denys Duchier , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16205 invoked by alias); 17 May 2001 00:23:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16200 invoked from network); 17 May 2001 00:23:08 -0000 Original-Received: from lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@131.111.8.44) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 May 2001 00:23:08 -0000 Original-Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 150BVh-0003mG-00; Thu, 17 May 2001 01:19:21 +0100 Original-Received: from gs234 by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 150BVb-0008Ov-00; Thu, 17 May 2001 01:19:15 +0100 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "16 May 2001 17:03:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36248 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36248 On 16 May 2001, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote: > On 16 May 2001, Gaute B. Strokkenes wrote: > >> Personally, I'd rather see that Makefile.in thing fixed. Surely >> I'm not the only one who's seeing this? > > It's not the job of the Makefile to do tilde expansion, that's the > job of the shell. I don't think it's a good idea to want to do > tilde expansion in the Makefile -- while expanding `~' does not > appear to be difficult (just use $HOME), consider `~jrl' which is > not so easy (the user could be in /etc/passwd, or NIS, or NIS+, or > NetInfo). You're confused. This is not what I'm talking about at all; please re-read my original message. -- Big Gaute http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/ .. If I cover this entire WALL with MAZOLA, wdo I have to give my AGENT ten per cent??