From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-01-03T02:44:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8526] Re: 1.6.2 on Solaris2.5.1

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> H> Is There A Better Way To Do It?  We can't use ruby to distclean ruby, of
> H> course...
> 
>  Probably there is a better way to do it
> 
> pigeon% diff -ru ruby-1.6.2 ruby-yy
> diff -ru ruby-1.6.2/Makefile.in ruby-yy/Makefile.in
> --- ruby-1.6.2/Makefile.in      Mon Dec 25 04:55:18 2000
> +++ ruby-yy/Makefile.in Tue Jan  2 18:17:58 2001
> @@ -111,7 +111,10 @@
>                 @-@MINIRUBY@ -Cext extmk.rb clean 2> /dev/null || true

I'm not sure what this means -- the first @ suppresses echo, @MINIRUBY
preseumably accesses autoconf's idea of miniruby, so what does the - sign
in between do?

Does this mean that make distclean will fail on a new system or one
without a working miniruby?

	[lots of thoughtful code trimmed, for now.] 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
	Hugh