Hi,
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:19:03PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> The other alternative is to do away with backward compatibility and just
> say that as of release automake XXX you need GNU make 3.81 if your
> makefiles have $ in the names.
that sounds reasonable. Perhaps there should be an AM_* macro to ensure
this, to be called in configure.ac for such projects.
But as you might have noticed, Alexandre has much more experience.
His opinion is what matters.
> The nice(?) thing about this is that
> these makefiles should also, then, work with other SysV make versions.
Do other SysV make versions support $(subst ...)?
Without it, the makefile might have to contain two copies of each
variable containing a '$' (and all variables which use this variable,
and recursively). This won't be convenient.
And moreover, if some of the source files are substituted by configure,
you cannot fix the syntax.
> Or, you can have an automake option that selects which the user has.
I'm afraid this is not possiblle: Automake options are set by the
maintainer of the project, long before the tarball is generated.
But I guess you don't want to have different tarballs for different
make flavours.
Have a nice day,
Stepan Kasal
