Re: Autoconf 2.49d test: Command not found

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:20:02PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
: On further investigation, it seems to be coming from here:-
: 
: $(srcdir)/version.texi: stamp-vti
:       @:
: 
: My Make struggles to understand '@:'. 
: 
: What is it supposed to mean?

@ tags the make rule so that make doesn't display it before executing it,
and : is the command.  It's basically a "nop" in this context.  I don't
get why it's there - shouldn't be necessary from what I know about portable
makefiles.

  Lars J
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