Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Simon, thanks for diagnosing and reporting that. Did you consider >> whether using GNU make's $(origin VAR) function will be sufficient? >> I.e., use VERSION only if it's specified on the command line, not >> merely if it appears in the environment? > > Here's a proposed (I confess, untested) patch for that:
Clever! That solved the problem elegantly, so I pushed it. I sympathize with Bruno's comment about the strange interface of the RELEASE variable, but I'm pretty used to it and reworking the logic and documentation doesn't seem motivated right now. How about a new release of cppi? I just packaged it for Debian, see <https://bugs.debian.org/1075715>. /Simon
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