A small comment update, for maint. This is documented in autoconf.texi 'Failure in Make Rules'.
Cheers, Ralf Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit. * lib/am/check.am: Update comment. diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am index e519391..c612b22 100644 --- a/lib/am/check.am +++ b/lib/am/check.am @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ am__text_box = $(AWK) '{ \ }' # Solaris 10 'make', and several other traditional 'make' implementations, -# pass "-e" to $(SHELL). This contradicts POSIX. Work around the problem +# pass "-e" to $(SHELL), and POSIX 2008 even requires this. Work around it # by disabling -e (using the XSI extension "set +e") if it's set. am__sh_e_setup = case $$- in *e*) set +e;; esac