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Re: Plus character (+) in Makefile.am
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: "Dahiroc, Patrick" <PDahiroc at armillaire dot com>
- Cc: "'automake at gnu dot org'" <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: 26 Dec 2001 21:03:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: Plus character (+) in Makefile.am
- References: <4D38F1A1C17DD411931F00508BAF728E014B9501@bethexc01.armillaire.com>
>>> "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