* Ralf Hemmecke wrote on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:49:35AM CET:
pattern rules are forbidden by automake, but I have the following problem.
They are not forbidden. They are unportable to non-GNU make, and
automake may not fully understand them, but other than that, there
is no problem (and there shouldn't be a problem with your rules).
Really? Then I am doing something wrong. In fact, I don't (currently)
care about all the different make versions. "configure" looks for
GNU-make and should abort if it doesn't find it.
After "configure" I would be free to use some GNU extensions, but how do
I tell automake about it.
I have now put the rule
%.abc: %.xyz
cp $< $@
into Makefile.am and started "autoreconf".
Not it tells me.
Makefile.am:8: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
What should I do?
Is there something wrong with
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror])
?
Ralf
