Problems using make wildcard function to define class lists

[David Holmes]

On 16/08/2012 2:18 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> I'm trying to define my own include/exclude class lists based on this
> example in CreateJars.gmk:
>
> LOCALEDATA_INCLUDE_PATTERNS := \
> sun/text/resources/*_ar* \
> ...
> sun/util/resources/*_zh*
>
> LOCALEDATA_INCLUDES := $(patsubst $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/classes/%,%,\
> $(foreach i,$(LOCALEDATA_INCLUDE_PATTERNS), $(wildcard
> $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/classes/$i)))
>
> But I discovered that if the class file represents an inner class and so
> has $ in its name, then the value returned by the wildcard function has
> been processed as if the $XXX were a variable and so is generally
> replaced with an empty string! Eg:
>
> Foo$bar.class -> Foo.class
>
> This would seem to make wildcard very error prone to use as you have to
> know that there are not, and never will be, files with $ in their name.
>
> wildcard also does not handle recursion in sub-directories.

Actually this is not a problem now I realize that jarreorder allows 
directories in the exclude list.

David
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> Given the above perhaps use of wildcard for .class files should be
> replaced by $(shell find ...) ?
>
> David