On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:36:08AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Excellent! I tried to remove the gnu make dependency myself but these > | three had me stumped. > > Except that I do not think we can use it as is... the am__object_X > stuff might AFAIK change with different versions of automake.
am__object_X is a list of *.lo files in that Makefile. Whenever that list name changes, this name changes in the same manner, right? So that's not an issue. > > (and seeing how much simpler the GNU syntax is I do not really > understand why BSD make does not support this.) > Because the chicken is older than an egg. Or was it the other way around? :-) I guess, because, as my equivalents show, it's not really necessary. It's just a shorthand for .for loop. And every added piece of syntax complicates the parser, which introduces more bugs, blah, blah... This is just a wild guess, I do not know really. I just take it as a fact of life. :-) -- Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
