Hi Tim,
> the command expands to
>
> if gawk --version | grep GNU >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
> (cd . && autoconf --trace AC_CONFIG_FILES:'$1') | \
> tr ' ' '\n' | \
> /usr/bin/sed -ne '/Makefile/{s/\.in$//;p;}' | \
> while read m; do \
> make -qp -f $m .DUMMY-TARGET 2>/dev/null | \
> gawk -v file=$m -e 'BEGIN { RS = "\n\n"; in_rules = 0; } /^#
> Files/ { in_rules = 1; } /\$</ && in_rules && $0 !~ /^(.*\n)*
> \.\w+(\.\w+)?:/ { print "Error: " file ": $< in a non implicit rule\n"
Does the attached patch fix it?
Bruno
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 16e9360..cb52631 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ sc_prohibit_gnu_make_extensions_awk_ = \
in_rules = 1; \
} \
/\$$</ && in_rules && $$0 !~ /^(.*\n)*\.\w+(\.\w+)?:/ { \
- print "Error: " file ": $$< in a non implicit rule\n" $$0; \
+ print "Error: " file ": $$" "< in a non implicit rule\n" $$0; \
status = 1; \
} \
END { \
