From dmurdoch at pair.com  Thu Feb 19 14:41:07 2004
From: dmurdoch at pair.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu Feb 19 14:42:20 2004
Subject: [Rd] src/scripts/Makefile bug (PR#6598)
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:27:31 +0100, Kurt Hornik
<Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote :

>>>>>> Atro Tossavainen writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> src/scripts/Makefile uses @ as the separator for sed.
>
>> This is fine unless the path names happen to contain @, which would
>> frequently be the case in sites where AFS is used and the AFS magic
>> path component @sys is used to distinguish between system types.
>
>> Please change the separator to #, for example.
>
>Which would then fail for people who for some reason have # in their
>file path.  I am not sure there is an easy fix for the problem.  One
>idea might be setting up a pipeline which tries different separators.
>
>Any other ideas?

Wouldn't the easiest thing be to make the separator be
user-configurable, in config.site (or MkRules, for Windows)?  These @
separators only show up in R.sh.in and Makefile.in in the src/scripts
directory, don't they?

Duncan Murdoch


[Rd] src/scripts/Makefile bug (PR#6598)
Duncan Murdoch