> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 1:56 PM
> To: Akim Demaille
> Cc: Alexandre Oliva; Bernard Dautrevaux; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Expanded rules for scripts
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Let's finally move the discussion from autoconf-pathes.
>
> > Well there was much left in ``properly''. My understanding was that
> > Pavel found a host where make was very happy with just those suffix
> > rules, but broken when we introduced extra dependencies. I don't
> > remember whether it was
> >
> > .sh: configure.in
> > # do sth
>
> Even GNU make would not let you do it.
This is indeed definitely wrong and I don't know of any make where I've seen
this working but, to be honest, discovering once it was not working I
stopped trying :-)
>
> > .sh: configure.in
> > # do sth
> > autoconf.sh: some-other-dependency
>
> This was used in Autoconf.
Are you sure? the ".sh: configure.in" dependency bothers me...
Anyway the right way to go, and I've never seen a make where it fails, would
be:
.sh:
# do sth
autoconf: configure.in some-other-dependency
What I know cause problems with some (old?) makes is listing "autoconf.sh"
as an explicit dependency for "autoconf"; some makes could then no more
expand the suffix rule.
Regards,
Bernard
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