On 2012-01-20 20:35 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Just a minor FYI and a minor question ... > > On 01/19/2012 09:27 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > > [SNIP] > > > >> 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: > > - GNU make (obviously) > - FreeBSD 8.2 make (I'm almost sure this works with 7.x too, at least) > - OpenBSD 4.6 > - NetBSD 5.1 > - Solaris 10 XPG 4 make > - Solaris 10 CCS make > - Sun Distributed Make 7.8 (2007/07/19)
Interesting point. It works with dmake as well. Perhaps it can be someday "included" in the list of effectively portable make features (like recursive macro expansion). > Does anyone know whether it works also with the vendor makes for AIX, > OSF1/Tru64, IRIX, HP-UX? I'm sure someone knows, but alas that person is not me. :) Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
