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Re: problem building 1.5.10



On Friday, 12 August 2005 at 12:39, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >  make doesn't seem to know "$<":
> > 
> > mutt.1: $(srcdir)/mutt.man
> >         $(EDIT) $< > $@
> > 
> > > It just stops here.  This is on NetBSD 2.0.
> >  
> >  Is this standard NetBSD make? It should recognise $< as a
> >  builtin/local variable according the man page.
> 
> $< usually only works in transformation rules.   Extending it to
> regular rules is a gmake-ism.
> 
> .1.man:
>       $(EDIT) $< > $@
> 
> should work in any make, or just replace $< with $(srcdir)/mutt.man in
> the original rule.

Sorry about that. I try to avoid gnuisms but they're like
cockroaches. Anyway, I committed the second, more primitive fix to
CVS.