On 04/24/2012 11:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Let me elaborate. previously it was possible to do something of this kind: > > if FEATURE0 > mystatedir = $(pkglocalstatedir) > mystate_DATA = > > if FEATURE01 > mystate_DATA += xxx > endif > if FEATURE02 > mystate_DATA += yyy > endif > endif > To obtain what exactly? I can't understand your use case if you don't explain me what you expect to obtain from the given input ...
> Now you are forcing devs to manually add rules to achieve the same effect. > Which effect? > Worse, if automake on packages which have not been manually added such > manually written rules, these package end up broken (e.g with build > errors in Linux distro-buildsystems). > New versions of these package should adapt to the new automake behaviour once (anf if) they upgrade from automake < 1.11.4 to automake >= 1.11.4. And if you are re-bootstrapping an older version of these package (after you've applied distro-specific patches I guess), you should be prepared to use the same autotools versions they used in the corresponding release tarball. Regards, Stefano
