On 01/20/2012 09:10 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 20:35 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>>> What automake does for source files it knows about is just "include >>>> $(DEPDIR)/srcfile.Po" (apparently "include" is considered portable >>>> make?). >>> >>> It's not considered portable make. >>> >> Still, it's worth noting that it works with every make implementation >> I usually test automake with: > > FYI, I believe that POSIX has approved adding an "include" command to > the make standard. I can't remember for sure. > It seems this is the case:
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/> An excerpt: ``If the word include appears at the beginning of a line and is followed by one or more <blank> characters, the string formed by the remainder of the line shall be processed as follows to produce a pathname ... [SNIP] ... The contents of the file specified by the pathname shall be read and processed as if they appeared in the makefile in place of the include line.'' > I know that POSIX standard != portable, necessarily, but it's a start. > Regards, Stefano
