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From: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (3929])
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Need fix for SysV3.1 make
Keywords: make,SystemV3.1,macros,bugs
Message-ID: <1434@sw1e.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 13:28:10 GMT
References: <1426@sw1e.UUCP>
Reply-To: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap [5-3929])
Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
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In article <1426@sw1e.UUCP> I wrote:
>Sorry to bring up and old subject (to comp.bugs.sys5 at least).  I seem to
>recall a number of patches to make for various flavors of Unix.  I'm not sure
>if there was one to fix macro substitution on SystemV3.1.  In particular, our
>version seems to 

OOPS.  Let's try this again and see if my fingers will listen this time...

Macro substitution only seems to work only for final strings.  Thusly:

	bar = food.c foo.c boo.c
	list1 = $(bar:o.c=x.y)

will result in

	$(list1) <==> food.c fox.y box.y

However

	bar = food.c foo.c boo.c
	list1 = $(bar:fo=r)

Does NOT result in

	$(list1) <==> rod.c ro.c boo.c

Just as a guess, it looks like it could be a problem with doing a strcmp
rather than a strncmp...

Anyway, if anyone has a fix, I would *greatly* appreciate it if they could
send me a copy via email.  We are running plain vanilla SysV3.{1,2}

Thanks,

Brian R. Gilstrap                          Southwestern Bell Telephone
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