Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!fxgrp!root
From: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: gnumake 3.54 bug
Message-ID: <1989Aug4.000007.22148@fxgrp.fx.com>
Date: 4 Aug 89 00:00:07 GMT
Reply-To: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady)
Organization: FXDevelopment, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 42

Gnumake 3.54 does not use the vpath mechanism to look for
library files (-lfoo.a).  While finding the cause of this bug,
I also found another bug which prevents library files from
being found in the current directory (unlike the claim in
"CHANGES" under 3.51).  The following patch fixes both of
these problems.

*** remake.c	Thu Aug  3 16:58:28 1989
--- remake.c.new	Thu Aug  3 16:58:24 1989
***************
*** 704,713 ****
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
      mtime = name_mtime (name + 4);
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
!     mtime = name_mtime (name + 8);
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
      {
!       char *newname = name;
        if (vpath_search (&newname))
  	{
  	  mtime = name_mtime (newname);
--- 704,713 ----
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
      mtime = name_mtime (name + 4);
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
!     mtime = name_mtime (name + 9);
    if (mtime == (time_t) -1)
      {
!       char *newname = name + 9;
        if (vpath_search (&newname))
  	{
  	  mtime = name_mtime (newname);

	Steven
	...!ucbvax!grady
	grady@postgres.berkeley.edu

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