Re: maintainer-makefile: catch uses of $< in non-implicit rules

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Tim,

> Le 17 juin 2019 à 11:57, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> The patch uses awk -e which is understood only by GNU awk. This breaks
> all Debian CI tests here since Debian installs 'mawk' by default (I
> wasn't aware of that before).
> 
> It's not a big deal to install package 'gawk' everywhere, but I just
> wanted to mention it. I can see no warning/hint in any of the patch's
> comments.

That was not my intention.

I expect that maintainers have gawk installed, so I think this check
should be skipped if awk is not gawk.  WDYT?