Re: gettext 0.10.37 unportable use of $< in doc/Makefile.am

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> POSIX says that the $< construct in makefiles can be used only in
> inference rules and in the .DEFAULT rule; its meaning in ordinary
> rules is unspecified.

You are right. I know this rule, but it's a pitfall into which I fall
quite often.

> Here is a patch.

Thanks. But your patch doesn't work when GNU make is used and $srcdir
!= $builddir. A slightly different patch is needed. You'll see it in
gettext-0.10.38.

Bruno