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Re: Plus character (+) in Makefile.am


>>> "dp" == Dahiroc, Patrick <PDahiroc@ARMILLAIRE.com> writes:
[...]
 dp> i'm trying to build a library called libhelp++.a, but i get the following
 dp> error when i run automake.
 dp> help++/src/Makefile.am:8: bad macro name `libhelp++_a_SOURCES'
[...]

All non alphanumeric characters in your library name are
transformed into `_' to form the macro name.  This includes the
`.', but also the `+'.  So try `libhelp___a_SOURCES' instead.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz



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