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To: Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] esr: Change Makefile.am so it doesn't have to list t...
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:59:45 -0500
Reply-to: esr@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Change Makefile.am so it doesn't have to list the nation files explicitly.
> > > Instead, use $(shell ls -1 *.ruleset) to make the generated Makefile
> > > compute the list dynamically.
> > 
> > I'm curious how win32 and VMS and friends handle this change...
> 
> Er...we have a VMS port?
> 
> This only gets invoked by make dist and make install/uninstall, which
> have a lot of other Unix assumptions (like the existence of an install
> script) embedded in them.

However, Mike Kaufman raises the possibility that using wildcards may
break distcheck.  I will investigate.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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