On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Yves Capdeboscq wrote:

>
> Point taken. Maybe you should then signal solaris users like me that they
> should change this line to compile with sun make. After this change, it
> compiles fine.

Do you compile --with-included-gettext?
Or do you compile with --disable-nls?

> On 13 Dec 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> >
> > Yves> POTFILE_IN_DEPS := $(shell find $(top_srcdir)/src -name
> > Yves> Makefile.am)
> >
> > Yves> should be
> >
> > Yves> POTFILE_IN_DEPS = $(shell find $(top_srcdir)/src -name
> > Yves> Makefile.am)
> >
> > No, this is a GNU expansion meaning that the variable is expanded at
> > definition time (and not when used). The idea is to avoid running find
> > several times, I guess.

That is true.  At the time I didn't realize it was a GNU make extension.

> > In fact, GNU make is needed to compile lyx.
[ for gettext makefile ]

Maybe we should check if --with-included-gettext is used and then warn the
user they need GNU make.  It should be safe to do the ":=" -> "=" change.

Allan. (ARRae)

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