[Rd] src/scripts/Makefile bug (PR#6598)

Kurt Hornik Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at
Wed Feb 18 22:27:31 MET 2004


>>>>> Atro Tossavainen writes:

> Hi,
> src/scripts/Makefile uses @ as the separator for sed.

> This is fine unless the path names happen to contain @, which would
> frequently be the case in sites where AFS is used and the AFS magic
> path component @sys is used to distinguish between system types.

> Please change the separator to #, for example.

Which would then fail for people who for some reason have # in their
file path.  I am not sure there is an easy fix for the problem.  One
idea might be setting up a pipeline which tries different separators.

Any other ideas?

-k



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