On 09/19/2012 08:23 AM, Vincent Torri wrote: > Hey > > our documentation provides some images files in a subdirectory 'img'. > So, in EXTRA_DIST, we have added: > > $(wildcard $(srcdir)/img/*.*) > > automake reports that warning: > > doc/Makefile.am:35: wildcard $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name > doc/Makefile.am:35: (probably a GNU make extension) > > what is the correct way to add all the files, without listing them all > in EXTA_DIST ? > Also, in addition to what Peter said, if you are already requiring GNU make anyway, the $(wildcard ...) use should be fine. You can either ignore the warning, or silence it explicitly using '-Wno-portability'; the downside of this second option being that all the portability warnings will be disabled, not just those related to portability to non-GNU make implementations.
> thank you > > Vincent Torri HTH, Stefano