Broken lawyerese.c file breaks the build

[yurivict]

Contents of this file:

char *lawyerese =
; 

OS: FreeBSD 11.1

[barak]

This works for me, on Debian. Presumably the lawyerese.c: stanza in Makefile.am works with GNU Make but not with BSD Make. Here is what I get:

$ ./configure
$ rm lawyerese.c 
$ make lawyerese.c 
echo 'char *lawyerese =' > lawyerese.c.tmp && \
	sed -e 's|.*|"\0\\n"|g' COPYING >> lawyerese.c.tmp && \
	echo ";" >> lawyerese.c.tmp && \
	mv lawyerese.c.tmp lawyerese.c || rm -f lawyerese.c.tmp

I'm guessing that the $^ construct doesn't work? If that's the problem, it could be replaced with $(COPYING_FILES). Anyway, a BSD-clean patch to that stanza would be welcome.

[yurivict]

I changed to the GNU make in the port.
Thanks!