[CCing bug-gettext, because po/Makefile.in.in comes from GNU gettext.] Petr Ovtchenkov wrote in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-04/msg00000.html>
> Template po/Makefile.in.in use old-fashioned suffix rules > for generating .gmo. But this rules do not allow any prerequisites. > > See: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules > > <snip> > Suffix rules cannot have any prerequisites of their own. If they have > any, they are treated as normal files with funny names, not as suffix > rules. Thus, the rule: > ... > </snip> > > This lead to problem when used relatively new GNU Make: > <snip> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'en.gmo', needed by ... > </snip> Please, to make it easier for me to reproduce, could you tell which version of GNU make you're using? > In this patch I am avoid significant changes and gmake-specific > syntax. But % pattern rules are GNU make specific syntax, since this syntax is not specified by POSIX [1]. I fear that I'll have to use a more complicated fix... Bruno [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
