Hi,
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:49:40PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> [...] I was really leery of changing the layout of the variables
> defined by the user. Normally Automake tries to output definitions
> as it reads them.
I like your attitude.
> Maybe Automake could do that if the variable appear to be longer
> than some "human tolerance" threshold. Assume a generated file
> list and flatten any variable definition with more that 500
> characters in a line. This way ordinary variables are still
> output exactly as defined.
>
> (I feeling a bit paranoid here; the above scheme is likely to be
> overkill.)
I don't think it's an overkill. Perhaps the threshold could be
250 or 1000, but the algorithm looks very sensitive.
Thank you,
Stepan Kasal
