Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released

[Jim Meyering]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> [...]
>  Jim> * src/Makefile.am (bin_PROGRAMS): Add "[".
>  Jim> (__SOURCES): New var.
>  Jim> * src/test.c (LBRACKET): Define to 0 if not defined.
> [...]
>
> Is NEWS-OS 4.2R something you care about?  Make variables

Do people still use that OS?
I seem to remember that NEWS-OS (Sony?) was nearly nonexistent
8 or 10 years ago.  They were also responsible for my writing
some horrible hack wrt EXIT_FAILURE or EXIT_SUCCESS.
On that system (maybe not the same release), one of those was
defined to the wrong value!

> starting with `_' are not portable there.  (`automake -Wall'
> will warn you about this.)  If it matters, I guess another
> ginstall-like trick is required.  (We really need some kind of
> install-time-renaming support in Automake.)

It does matter to me, but I'm not sure I'm willing to make
the changes in so many places.

Thanks for mentioning that!