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Re: Do not name your AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR `aux'
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Do not name your AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR `aux' |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:43:01 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Hi Brian,
* Brian wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:08:09AM CET:
> As I found out the hard way, `aux' is not portable to Cygwin, as it is a
> reserved folder name in Windows. You will not receive an explicit error.
> Instead your folder will simply be corrupted. The reason is that Windows
> won't let you directly create a folder named `aux', it will just revert
> immediately to "New Folder." Given that, they did not add any error checking
> code for an imported folder with this name.
>
> Any chance of sneaking this into that macro's help text?
Quoting CVS Autoconf docs:
| -- Macro: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (DIR)
| Use the auxiliary build tools (e.g., `install-sh', `config.sub',
| [...]
| If you need portability to DOS variants, do not name the auxiliary
| directory `aux'. *Note File System Conventions::.
Cheers,
Ralf