Am Dienstag, den 12.02.2008, 10:39 -0500 schrieb db: > I am trying to run automake command in Fedora 7 (automake 1.10). Automake > fails due to GNU make extension: > > priv/Makefile.am:52: shell cat $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name > priv/Makefile.am:52: (probably a GNU make extension) > > Makefile.am content, where the problem is: > $(shell cat $(srcdir)/test_con.txt) > > This means you can't have gnu make $(srcdir) syntax?
No. It means that $(shell ...) is a GNU make extension. The warning (it's normally not an error except -Werror is used) is not related to $(srcdir). Regards, Daniel