Re: gettext makefile bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Richard Pixley)
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:40:40 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Using file prefixes tends to be a bad idea.  In this case, temporary
> files come out looking like t-/src/gettext-0.etc/man/page.3, which
> doesn't work very well.

Your patch breaks on systems where address@hidden exceeds the system limit for
the file-name length, and is truncated by the OS.

A better patch would be to to use t-`basename address@hidden, but I'm not sure
`basename' is portable enough.