Re: PATCH doc/refcard.tex

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>]

> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 23:50:38 -0500
> From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
> 
> While trying to recall some of the more esoteric GDB commands (using
> current CVS version to try to debug some C++, sigh), I tried to print
> the reference card.  While futzing with paper sizes, I noticed that the
> version and copyright information is old.  Fixed thusly.

Thanks.  However, I think the FSF doesn't want us to use year ranges
(as in "1998--2000"), so I used explicit years instead.

> (Incidentally, the doc/Makefile.in commands for refcard.dvi won't work.
> When REFEDITS is empty, the command sequence includes "for f in ; do some
> commands ; done" and every Bourne-family shell I tried pukes on the early
> ';'.  The irony is that this is in a branch which knows that REFEDITS is
> not empty, but is joined together with the lines executed when it is empty,
> into one long shell statement.)

This works for me with Bash.  Hmm.  Does it work if you replace
"$(REFEDITS)" with $$REFEDITS ?  (You might need to "export REFEDITS"
somewhere in the Makefile.)