* db wrote on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:39:58PM CET:
> I am trying to run automake command in Fedora 7 (automake 1.10).  Automake
> fails due to GNU make extension:
> 
> priv/Makefile.am:52: shell cat $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
> priv/Makefile.am:52: (probably a GNU make extension)

Unless -Werror, that should be a warning only.  You can use
-Wno-portability.

> Makefile.am content, where the problem is:
> $(shell cat $(srcdir)/test_con.txt)
> 
> This means you can't have gnu make $(srcdir) syntax?

Automake cannot understand most of it.  But most of it it can skip
without getting too confused.

> When I do automake on Fedora 6 which has automake 1.9.6, all seem to be
> fine.

That's probably because 1.9.6 did not enable -Wportability by default.

Cheers,
Ralf


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