On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:57:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> cpan-testers:
>
> How do I fix a "Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake
> idiom" error?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> David
...
>
> Output from '/usr/bin/make':
>
> cp lib/Dpchrist/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> blib/lib/Dpchrist/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> Manifying blib/man3/Dpchrist::ExtUtils::MakeMaker.3
> Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 842 of
> Makefile)
Don't generate makefile explicit rules with $< in them, eg you could
change:
README :: $file
pod2text \$< > README
to
README :: $file
pod2text $file > README
Tony
