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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Kuroishi Mitsuo <kuroishi@iij.ad.jp>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: makeinfo: missing file argument
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:37:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fybon5mhtx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k9fwchmi2v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:32:08 -0400")

Glenn Morris wrote:

> It looks like whatever "make" is, it does not understand the $<
> construct, and silently replaces it with nothing.

Huh, according to

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.68/html_node/_0024_003c-in-Ordinary-Make-Rules.html

"$<" is not portable in ordinary rules.

Emacs has always used '$<' in its Make rules, but maybe all the other
instances were in non-ordinary rules. So the Emacs Makefiles should
probably be fixed to not use '$<' in ordinary rules, like the ones in
doc/*/Makefile.

Thanks for helping to track this down!



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-06  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04  1:53 makeinfo: missing file argument Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-04 16:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-05  0:18   ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-05  9:23     ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-05 13:22       ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-05 13:31         ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-05 16:26     ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-05 18:14       ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-06  0:38       ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  7:06         ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-06  7:22           ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  7:32             ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-06  7:37               ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-04-06  9:16                 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-07 19:26                 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-08  0:13                   ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-08  6:01                   ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  8:01               ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  8:47                 ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  8:59                 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-04-06  9:15                   ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-06  9:52                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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