[Xastir] Can we get this fixed? Makefile.am warning

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Tom Russo wrote:

>>      3) Running automake...
>> scripts/Makefile.am:76: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension

> This was introduced when the scripts Makefile.am was tweaked to insert
> the install prefix into various scripts.
>
> IMHO, inserting gnu make-specific extensions into Makefile.am is not OK.  There
> are some systems where "make" is not GNU make, and until this change it was
> possible to build Xastir without GNU make.  (Mine is one of those systems).

I was specifically thinking of systems like Solaris and HP/UX.
FreeBSD hadn't crossed my mind.  OSX may be similar in this respect.

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