[systemd-devel] [PATCH] make: Automake is complaining about .PRECIOUS being redefined

Fri Jul 19 23:37:14 PDT 2013

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:09:35AM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

Hi,

> Applied for now.

I picked %MAKEFILE% as this is what was in the generated Makefile before
my patch. I just tried to match the output.

> But that looks like a plain automake bug. It should know that targets
> starting with a dot are not real targets. Could you file a bug
> report with automake, so this gets fixed properly?

I sent an email to the automake list and will report back.