[Flac-dev] Warnings with automake-1.10

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 10 22:51:32 PDT 2007


--- Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-flac at mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> Josh,
> 
> Automake 1.10 on OSX is giving me warnings like the following:
> 
>     test/Makefile.am:50: wildcard *.raw: non-POSIX variable name
>     test/Makefile.am:50: (probably a GNU make extension)
>     test/Makefile.am:50: wildcard *.flac: non-POSIX variable name
>     test/Makefile.am:50: (probably a GNU make extension)
>     test/Makefile.am:50: wildcard *.oga: non-POSIX variable name
>     test/Makefile.am:50: (probably a GNU make extension)
> 
> which is complaining about things like this:
> 
>     CLEANFILES = \
>         $(wildcard *.raw) \
>         $(wildcard *.flac) \
>         $(wildcard *.oga) \
>         $(wildcard *.ogg) \
>         $(wildcard *.cmp) \
>         $(wildcard *.aiff) \
> 
> I did some research:
> 
>     http://www.cygwin.com/ml/automake/2000-07/msg00013.html
>    
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/wildcards.html
>    
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-clean_002dlocal-737
> 
> and it seems that the correct way to do what you want is:
> 
>     clean-local:
>         -rm -f *.raw *.flac *.oga *.ogg *.cmp *.aiff
> 
> Do you want to do this or should I send a patch?

thanks, I'll do it.  got automake-1.10 on one of my boxes now so
I'll go through the whole thing tonight to make sure it's working.

Josh



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