Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH] [ng] suffix: don't reject old-fashioned suffix rules anymore

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 05/29/2012 02:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Now that, after today's commit 'v1.12-331-g645bb21', Automake-NG does
> not follow the chain of user-defined pattern rules anymore, there's no
> need to treat such rules preferentially, nor to reject old-fashioned
> suffix rules.  This will help interoperability with tools like Gnulib,
> which generated Makefile.am fragments that still uses old-fashioned
> suffix rules (since they are targeted to mainline Automake).
> 
And consider the diff below squashed in.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano

diff --git a/doc/automake-ng.texi b/doc/automake-ng.texi
index 80db240..6571eb8 100644
--- a/doc/automake-ng.texi
+++ b/doc/automake-ng.texi
@@ -10334,12 +10334,6 @@ doit_SOURCES = doit.foo

 Note that the above only works with suffixes that start with a dot.

-Also note that Automake-NG does not support old-fashioned suffix rules
-(@pxref{Suffix Rules, ,Old-fashioned Suffix Rules, make, The GNU make
-Manual}), since they are obsoleted by the GNU make pattern rules.  In
-fact, Automake-NG will error out an any attempt to use old-fashioned
-suffix rules.
-
 @node Include
 @chapter Include