Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:13:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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        pausmith AT nortelnetworks DOT com,
        Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
Subject: Re: Make 3.78 is in pretest
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> This gives some clues on what Eli said. The exit code is _supposed_ to be 
> in the upper eigth bits in perl.

If this is ``standard Perl'', then I'd say the DJGPP port has a bug, 
because the command that deletes a file had its status NOT shifted 8 bits 
to the left; see my description of problems with features/errors test.

Laszlo, can you please comment on this?

> > ! &touch("four.example");
> 
> ...
> 
> > ! &touch("example.for");
> 
> Shouldn't this be "example.four"? Or mustn't the filename exceed 8.3 
> limitations?

It cannot exceed 8+3 limitations, because then $(wildcard example.*) will 
return "example.fou" which won't compare equal to "example.four".

> About "...":
> I can't see any differences in the patches. (I must be blind, or my brain 
> isn't parsing right right now.)

This is the original line:

  ! print MAKEFILE "\techo This makefile did not clean the dir ... good\n";

And this is the replacement:

  ! print MAKEFILE "\techo This makefile did not clean the dir... good\n";

The difference is that the replacement says "dir..." without the blank 
between "dir" and "...".  This make "..." not special, while preserving 
the original language.