Re: [PATCH] Update to automake 1.8

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 15:19, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> I recently looked at the manual and saw that the version and date
> weren't updated.  This is because automake 1.7 doesn't update info
> files (and thus version.texi) in the source directory but in the
> build directory.  Automake 1.8 changed this back, and if you change
> the manual the version.texi in the source directory will also be
> updated automatically.  The following patch updates the input files
> so that everything works fine with automake 1.8.

I see, but please do not specify 1.8 in Makefile.am at the moment, 
because I use automake 1.7.x.

> It also fixes some portability issue, namely that pattern rules (%:
> %.exec) are only supported by GNU make.  It is now possible to
> compile grub with BSD make.

Ok.

Thanks,
Okuji