Re: replacing $<

[Bill Moseley]

> > In a Makefile.in I have:
> > 
> > %.1: ../pod/%.pod
> >         pod2man --center="SWISH-E Documentation" --lax 
> > --release='$(VERSION)' $< > $@

I'm sorry, I cut from the wrong makefile.  I have this in a
Makefile.am, not the above:

$(srcdir)/swish-e.1 : $(top_srcdir)/pod/swish-e.pod
        -rm -f $@
        -pod2man --center="SWISH-E Documentation" --lax --release='$(VERSION)'  
$<  > $@

And on Solaris 2.6 $< is not getting set.

So I'm just asking if $< is not portable (but it's ok to use $@)?  
Or am I using $< incorrectly?

I guess the solution is to use $(top_srcdir)/pod/swish-e.pod in place of $<.

Thanks,


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