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bug #19850: po/Makefile.am: Complaints about non-portable GNU make extensions

Submitted by:  Martin Guy <martinwguy>
Submitted on:  Thu 10 May 2007 11:46:46 AM UTC  
 
Category: buildSeverity: 2 - Minor
Release: NoneStatus: Invalid
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

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Thu 10 May 2007 01:02:11 PM UTC, comment #1:

What platform ? Anyway, there is no reason a GNU project has to support any make but GNU make, and this is a long standing policy for many GNU projects. As far as the po Makefile, it was cleaner to do the name munging than to add multiple lists of files where only the suffix changes.

Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Project Administrator
Thu 10 May 2007 11:46:46 AM UTC, original submission:

Some complaints about snazzy syntax. Not a bug, just making a note of it

Running automake --add-missing --copy ...
po/Makefile.am:12: `:='-style assignments are not portable
po/Makefile.am:12: patsubst %,%.po,$(translations: non-POSIX variable name
po/Makefile.am:12: (probably a GNU make extension)
po/Makefile.am:13: `:='-style assignments are not portable
po/Makefile.am:13: patsubst %,%.gmo,$(translations: non-POSIX variable name
po/Makefile.am:13: (probably a GNU make extension)
po/Makefile.am:25: `:='-style assignments are not portable
po/Makefile.am:25: foreach dir,$(dirs: non-POSIX variable name
po/Makefile.am:25: (probably a GNU make extension)
po/Makefile.am:25: wildcard $(dir: non-POSIX variable name
po/Makefile.am:25: (probably a GNU make extension)
testsuite/misc-ming.all/Makefile.am:24: shell cd $(top_builddir: non-POSIX variable name
testsuite/misc-ming.all/Makefile.am:24: (probably a GNU make extension)
testsuite/swfdec/Makefile.am:21: shell cd $(top_builddir: non-POSIX variable name
testsuite/swfdec/Makefile.am:21: (probably a GNU make extension)

Martin Guy <martinwguy>

 

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