oborchert <borchert@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I created a Makefile.in where I read the content out of a file and pass > it to CFLAGS. Calling ./configure ... the Makefile will be generated an > all works well. > Makefile.in: > ... > MY_REVISION_FILE=my-revision.txt > MY_REVISION=$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE)) > AM_CFLAGS = -I$(EXTRAS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir) > -DMY_REVISION=$(MY_REVISION) > ... > The problem arises once I moved the Makefile.in code into Makefile.am to > allow the auto generation of Makefile.in. There calling autoreconf -i > --force stops with the following error: > server/Makefile.am:9: cat $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name > server/Makefile.am:9: (probably a GNU make extension) > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 > This problem hunts me now since quite some time. I searched everywhere > but did not find anything that could help me finding a solution for > that. In short, the only thing I need is a way to get an uninterpreted > text such as "$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))" copied > from Makefile.am to Makefile.in This is actually an Automake question, but the short answer is that you probably have fatal warnings enabled and you need to add -Wno-portability to the Automake flags (in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, for example). -- Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
