* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:39:29PM CEST: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > I suppose automake could be enhanced to also define $(OBJECTS) as > > the set of all objects. > What about libtool objects? Should we care about them? I'm writing a > couple of (xfailing) testcases to check a prospective patch introducing > $(OBJECTS) (BTW, is such a general name enough namespace-safe? I hardly > think so...), and I don't know what to do for libtool objects.
At this point I'm not sure if it's safe or worthwhile to add either of them. This is a pretty special case here, and we don't really have much use for this otherwise, do we? Generally, I think the idea a couple of years ago was to move away from the all-collecting variables such as $(SOURCES), $(PROGRAMS) etc. Haven't dug history to find out for sure why, though. Cheers, Ralf
