[Pm-utils] [patch review request] Remove hardcoded /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions dependence

[Dan Nicholson]

On Jan 31, 2008 7:10 AM, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 9:07 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2008 7:02 AM, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 31, 2008 8:11 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Give this a shot:
> > > >
> > > > .SUFFIXES: .in
> > > > .in:
> > > >     $(do_subst) $< > $@
> > > >
> > > > .SUFFIXES are old-style pattern rules. This is what automake uses to
> > > > be portable across make variants when constricting pattern rules for
> > > > .c, .o, etc.
> > >
> > > Nice.  Patch attached (applies on the top of the other two patches in
> > > this series).
> >
> > It's actually .SUFFIXES (with the leading .). I don't think SUFFIXES:
> > is a valid directive.
>
> It is an automake vs. make thing -- when I tried it with .SUFFIXES,
> automake told me "don't do that, stupid, use SUFFIXES instead", and a
> bit of Googling found that automake automatically generates the right
> .SUFFIXES clauses when you use SUFFIXES.
> http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/cgi-bin/info2www?(automake)Suffixes for
> reference.

Ah, OK. I'd just tried it in a plain old Makefile.

--
Dan