Re: Fix makedepend depmode to cope with VPATH builds

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Saturday 09 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> But independently of bracket expressions, Posix also specifies that ^
> and $ are not special when they are not first or last characters in a
> regex, respectively.  This is what makes object file names of the form
> foo^bar.o and foo$bar.o acceptable.  Even ^foo.o, since our sed regex
> does not start with $object.
> 
Good.  BTW, I didn't know this `^' and `$' behaviour was mandated by
POSIX.  I've learnt something new today, at least :-)

Thanks,
  Stefano