Subject: bug#61867: dirstamp pattern rule kills buildability with FreeBSD make, NetBSD make, AIX make

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:00:34 +0100

Karl Berry wrote:
> I reverted (attempted to, anyway) that change.

Thank you.

> since evidently @D is not supported on BSD-derived makes,
> whatever POSIX says.

Nitpicking:

I think the problem is not with $(@D), which is inside the rule.
The error message

   Cannot find a rule to create target malloc/.dirstamp

indicates that 'make' did not even start to execute that rule.

Bruno