Re: coreutils tests/Makefile.am assumes "make -C"

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Solaris "make" doesn't have the -C option, but coreutils CVS uses it
> in a couple of places; I noticed it with "make check".  Here's a patch.
>
> 2004-05-12  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       Don't assume that "make -C" works; Solaris "make" doesn't have -C.
>
>       * src/Makefile.am (all_programs.list): New rule, copied from
>       man/Makefile.am and tests/Makefile.am, except that we use the
>       system tr rather than ./tr and we don't use tr -s.
>       * tests/Makefile.am (all_programs): Use it.
>       * man/Makefile.am (all_programs): Likewise.  Renamed from programs,
>       for consistency.  All uses changed.

Thanks.
I'll apply most of that.

I used the just-built ./tr rather than some vendor-supplied one
because some of the latter don't support '\n', and I don't want to
hard-code the ASCII '\012'.