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Re: gettext 0.10.37 unportable use of $< in doc/Makefile.am
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: gettext 0.10.37 unportable use of $< in doc/Makefile.am |
Date: |
Tue, 15 May 2001 21:15:39 +0200 (CEST) |
Paul Eggert writes:
> POSIX says that the $< construct in makefiles can be used only in
> inference rules and in the .DEFAULT rule; its meaning in ordinary
> rules is unspecified.
You are right. I know this rule, but it's a pitfall into which I fall
quite often.
> Here is a patch.
Thanks. But your patch doesn't work when GNU make is used and $srcdir
!= $builddir. A slightly different patch is needed. You'll see it in
gettext-0.10.38.
Bruno