Re: Make syntax $(srcdir) in Makefile.am problem

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Dienstag, den 12.02.2008, 10:39 -0500 schrieb db: 
> I am trying to run automake command in Fedora 7 (automake 1.10).  Automake
> fails due to GNU make extension:
> 
> priv/Makefile.am:52: shell cat $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
> priv/Makefile.am:52: (probably a GNU make extension)
> 
> Makefile.am content, where the problem is:
> $(shell cat $(srcdir)/test_con.txt)
> 
> This means you can't have gnu make $(srcdir) syntax?

No. It means that

$(shell ...)

is a GNU make extension. The warning (it's normally not an error except
-Werror is used) is not related to $(srcdir).

Regards, Daniel