On 09/10/2014 03:08 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2014-09-10 10:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> I was able to work around the issue here as there is only a single >> item in libexec in my project which I excluded from $(transform) like: >> >> transform = /myprog/!$(program_transform_name) > > This seems like a reasonable solution. But be careful: the above > won't work if program_transform_name (which is set by the user) contains > nontrivial sed commands. For example, it will fail if it contains a > semicolon. > > Something like this should be more robust (but untested): > > transform = /myprog/q;$(program_transform_name)
Good suggestion. The above is more robust and portable according to my testing and: http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html#Limitations-of-Usual-Tools thanks, Pádraig.
