GNU bug report logs - #55025
Automake should allow one to enable POSIX make behavior

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:35:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: vincent <at> vinc17.net
Cc: 55025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55025: Automake should allow one to enable POSIX make behavior
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:17:13 -0600
Sorry, I don't understand what you want Automake to do.

Right now, as far as I can tell, Automake does nothing with .POSIX. It's
not mentioned in the manual nor, as far as I can grep, the code. Maybe
that's the issue, and you want a leading .POSIX in your Makefile.am to
be specially copied at the beginning of the output Makefile.in?
(Or an option, or something.)

But ... have you tried to run a Makefile originating from Automake with
.POSIX in effect?  I feel doubtful that it will work, although I don't
know it for a fact.  -k





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