Shaun McCance schrieb: > Ever since automake 1.9, automake has been spewing garbage like > this when you try to build any module that uses gnome-doc-utils: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507336
Does anyone know what a fix would be? What are the rules for "POSIX variable name"? Most hits I get when searching for that error tell that its becausem fo e.g. $(shell ...), but this isn't a variable name. Is the warning maybe crap and it should be filed as a bug to automake? > > Discussions on IRC indicate that we pretty much require GNU make > all over the place in Gnome, including for intltool. I have had > numerous bugs filed and fixed against gnome-doc-utils for non-GNU > systems (mostly by the venerable Joe Marcus Clarke). I can only > assume that, at this point, I'm not causing any *real* problems > for non-GNU systems; otherwise, I'd be seeing real bugs. > > It seems to me that, if we just require GNU make, we ought to > just pass -Wno-portability to automake. There's a bug and patch > from Philip Van Hoof to do this: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529120 > On the other hand, we e.g. use pattern rules where a standart substitution rule would be enough, so some of the things are easily fixable. Stefan > Christian Persch says he's in favor, but thinks it ought to be > discussion on desktop-devel-list. > > So folks, let's discuss. > > -- > Shaun > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
