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Re: zsh and line breaks



> The use of the shell wildcard (zsh*.html) makes the shell do a pattern
> match against the list of files in the directory in which it is run.  If
> I was building from a work directory (say zsh-4.2.0/.build/Doc) and
> installing into a destination root other that "/" (say zsh-4.2.0/.inst)
> make executes this bit of shell code and it fails to find any zsh*.html
> files because make isn't currently in that directory (it's in
> .build/Doc).  Prepending ${sdir} ensures the zsh*.html files are

Yes, and the html files are generated in the build directory, so it
won't find them in ${sdir}.

> So how, exactly, does this break VPATH?  Can you give me an example?
> I'll try and correct it, but I don't yet see how it's broken.

Is Cygwin texi2html outputting to your source directory?



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