On 10/16/07, Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:05 AM, NightStrike wrote: > > > Where is $(COMPILE) documented? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Program- > variables.html#index-COMPILE-494 > > > When should it be used? > > When you want to "compile a C source file" (quoting the manual). > Maybe this works for C++ too (I haven't checked but I wouldn't be > surprised). > > > What does it actually get set to? > > To whatever command that can actually "compile a C source file" :)
Ah, thank you. I couldn't find any of that information in the manual because I kept searching for the text strings $(COMPILE) and ${COMPILE}. D'oh! Thanks for the quick response.