<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-03-19 12:51 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:20140319165102.GB25941@gaara.hadrons.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">One reason to use something (in spirit) like this is to avoid unnecessary line changes whenever a new entry is appended to the list, which might also generate less conflicts. I tend to use $(nil) as the last item in those cases. The other option is to switch the assignment to “=+”, but that seems more verbose. </pre> </blockquote> Now that you mention it, I recall seeing this somewhere. I went back and there was only one offending construct: <blockquote><tt>if GLAMOR</tt><tt> </tt><tt>GLAMOR_SRCS = \</tt><tt> </tt><tt> ephyr_glamor_glx.c \</tt><tt> </tt><tt> ephyr_glamor_glx.h \</tt><tt> </tt><tt> ()</tt><tt> </tt><tt>endif</tt> </blockquote> <blockquote><tt>Producing: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nadon/xorg/src/xserver/hw/kdrive/ephyr'</tt><tt> </tt><tt>make[3]: *** No rule to make target `()', needed by `distdir'. Stop.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nadon/xorg/src/xserver/hw/kdrive/ephyr'</tt><tt> </tt><tt>make[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1</tt><tt> </tt></blockquote> It's a typo where "()" was written instead of "$()". I wrongly assumed they were all bad, typos or not! I'll write another patch. </body> </html>