[Libvir] Warnings about GNU make extensions

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Mar 1 15:17:27 UTC 2007


I'm seeing the warnings below when compiling on Fedora Rawhide.

src/Makefile.am:84: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
tests/Makefile.am:11: wildcard $(top_builddir: non-POSIX variable name
tests/Makefile.am:11: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/confdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.conf: non-POSIX variable name
tests/confdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/confdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.out: non-POSIX variable name
tests/confdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/sexpr2xmldata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.xml: non-POSIX variable name
tests/sexpr2xmldata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/sexpr2xmldata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.sexpr: non-POSIX variable name
tests/sexpr2xmldata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/virshdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.txt: non-POSIX variable name
tests/virshdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/xmconfigdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.xml: non-POSIX variable name
tests/xmconfigdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/xmconfigdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.cfg: non-POSIX variable name
tests/xmconfigdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/xml2sexprdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.xml: non-POSIX variable name
tests/xml2sexprdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)
tests/xml2sexprdata/Makefile.am:2: wildcard *.sexpr: non-POSIX variable name
tests/xml2sexprdata/Makefile.am:2: (probably a GNU make extension)

Versions:

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu


$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.



$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.10
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>
        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at gnu.org>.

Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Rich.




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