Anthony N. Frasso wrote: > I have now been able to successfuly configure autoconf. Unfortunately, > I am still not able to compile it using make. Here is the output. If > anyone is able to help, it would be much appreciated! > [...] > Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 484 of Makefile) Hmm... I won't comment on the comment from the OpenBSD make about $< since I don't have any idea. Personally to get past this I would compile[1] up gnu make and use it. It compiles easily and is a single program so can install anywhere easily. Then use gnu make[2] for the build. Bob [1] http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/Y/yak-shaving.html http://www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/