Re: maintainer-makefile: catch uses of $< in non-implicit rules

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Tim,

Sorry I dropped the ball...

> Reproducible everywhere (needs gawk being installed, else the
> sc_prohibit_gnu_make_extensions is a no-op).

Which is what I meant.  So are you saying it work as (I) expected?

> Akim, at least with GNU make 4.2.1 the combination of -q and -p doesn't
> do what you expect. From the make man page, I would say that both
> options contradict. -q: don't print anything; -p: print the database

I'm using 4.2.1, and it does what I meant: -p prints the rules,
and -q (which is --question, not --quiet) avoids that we
fired a rule (i.e., "make -q" does not run "make all").

So I'm just clueless here.  I don't know what to do to address
your issue.

Are you running "make syntax-check" on a configured builddir?