Re: Built sources and make distcheck

[Allan Caffee]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Allan Caffee wrote on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:43:02AM CET:
> > Although I must admit I'm not sure what he means by 
> > > > [...] this shouldn't matter for read-only trees iff your
> > > > dependencies are set up correctly [...]
> > I'm not really sure how else you could have generated.c on the source
> > tree and not break dist-check, but then I'm probably missing something
> > obvious.
> 
> With distcheck, the rule for generated.c should never be invoked in the
> first place, as the distributed file should be up to date wrt. its
> prerequisites.
> 
> > Also, I don't want to split hairs here but isn't it less portable to use
> > $@ in a non-suffix rule?
> 
> No.  Using $< is unportable outside of suffix rules, but $@ may be used
> everywhere.

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

~Allan