On Friday 24 of August 2012 17:20:08 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 10:11 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >   As with the other person who originally posted
> > http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::6608, the change is 
apparently
> > necessary so that correct *directory* information is provided for the 
build. You
> > must be exporting some path somewhere in your build such that telling 
make to
> > use the correct directory information with '$^' results in double-path
> > information in your build.  I don't know. It is either broken on your 
end or on
> > my end. I'm not using any exports to build, just the code from GIT. 
Building
> > just from GIT without altering the environment requires the patch I 
submitted.
> 
> I'll test the patch and report back. Looking closely at what my patch 
does and
> what your patch does, I appears that they both accomplish the same thing
> regarding the path information from 2 different directions:
> 
>    AC_PATH_PROGS(MOC_QT3, [moc-tqt], no, [$QT3_PREFIX:$PATH])
> 
> You seem to be providing the ':$PATH' information explicitly, while:
> 
> '$^' is a list of all the prerequisites of the rule, including the names 
of the
> directories in which they were found.
> 
>   What I don't know is which is the 'most correct' way to do it. After 
testing,
> if your works for my build, I'm happy just pushing yours. Will report 
back.
> 

David,

I read the comments for bug 920, which addresses exactly the same problem. 
After all, refers the same proposed patch. But comments confirm what I 
have also stated. Patches 18173187 (partially) and 7b10d93d cherry picked 
into v3.5.13-sru.

http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=920#c4

Slavek
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