Re: gettext makefile bug

[Bruno Haible]

After I asked
>    Would you mind telling which version of 'make' on which platform
>    you use, to reproduce the problem? And whether you configured with
>    builddir = srcdir or builddir != srcdir.

Richard Pixley answers:

> builddir != srcdir, and "clearmake -C gnu", (gnu make compatibility
> mode).

Note that builddir != srcdir requires a 'make' program that supports
the 'VPATH' variable, says the gettext/INSTALL file.

To date, GNU make is the only 'make' program known to me that supports
the 'VPATH' variable adequately.

Your bug report shows that in "clearmake -C gnu", $@ expands to a full
path although the target does not include a path and is in the current
directory. Thus I conclude that "clearmake -C gnu" doesn't support
VPATH adequately, and you should better use builddir = srcdir in all
GNU packages you build with "clearmake -C gnu".

Bruno