On 2011-06-23 16:25 -0400, Jie Zhang wrote: > > With Posix make Makefiles, it would be doable with some more work, but > > automake doesn't. With GNU make extensions used in the Makefile.am, it > > is almost impossible without implementing a large set of GNU make > > extension parsing in automake as well. > > > With my limited Makefile knowledge, I thought it was enough to look > one line ahead to see if the next line started with a $.RECIPEPREFIX. > If yes, this rule has a recipe, if no, this rule is only for > dependence.
Nope. One counterexample with POSIX makefiles is that they can have rules with commands entirely on one line. For instance foo: ; echo hello > $@ Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
