bug#55025: closed (Automake should allow one to enable POSIX make behavior)

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Your message dated Fri, 6 Oct 2023 16:40:32 -0600
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and subject line Re: [PATCH] New "posix" automake option.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #55025,
regarding Automake should allow one to enable POSIX make behavior
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> Automake should allow one to enable POSIX make behavior
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> Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:33:48 +0200
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> Mutt/2.2.3+10 (6e7437c4) vl-138565 (2022-04-12)
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> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
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>   .POSIX
>     The application shall ensure that this special target is specified
>     without prerequisites or commands. If it appears as the first
>     non-comment line in the makefile, /make/ shall process the makefile
>     as specified by this section; otherwise, the behavior of /make/ is
>     unspecified.
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> But even though one may add a .POSIX target as the first non-comment
> line in one's Makefile.am file, Automake will add various non-comment
> lines before this target in the generated Makefile. I received a
> remark about that for GNU MPFR. Though GNU make does not require
> this target to be the first non-comment line, this may matter with
> other make implementations.
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> This could be done either by detecting a .POSIX target in Makefile.am
> or with some AM_* macro in the configure.ac file.
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> Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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> Re: [PATCH] New "posix" automake option.
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> Fri, 6 Oct 2023 16:40:32 -0600
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> I installed your patch (and added a tiny test case). Thanks Vincent!
> Closing this bug (finally ...). -k
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