At Sunday 23 May 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> wrote:
> Long ago:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-02/msg00017.html>
> Unfortunately that turned out to be too optimistic. I'm pushing
> this followup to maint. Tested on NetBSD 5.99.29 and the pmake
> package of Debian.
> Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
>
> * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
> * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
> Require GNU make.
Isn't the requirement of GNU make too much strict? After all, the tests
works correctly with FreeBSD make and even with Heirloom make.
Regards,
Stefano
