Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Akim Demaille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:00 PM Subject: Re: problem: uniti

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Is there are reason that the automate values cannot all be +=, Robert> with a flag to ignore the value completely if the user uses = Robert> not += ? Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Robert> Without handling this in th

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 18, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately it is quite unrealistic wrt the implementation: >> Automake values are read _after_ Makefile.am was. Supporting this >> would be hard, and I am n

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Akim Demaille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:53 PM Subject: Re: problem: u

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 18, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately it is quite unrealistic wrt the implementation: Automake > values are read _after_ Makefile.am was. Supporting this would be > hard, and I am not sure it would bring really bonus. How about this: when you find FOO += bar

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 17, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * automake.in (¯o_define): User variables can be first defined >> with `+='. Alexandre> My impression is that, in this case, the macro should add Alexandre> to

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 17, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * automake.in (¯o_define): User variables can be first defined > with `+='. My impression is that, in this case, the macro should add to whatever automake would have set by default, instead of completely overriding the setti

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> I apply this: > > Index: ChangeLog > from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * automake.in (¯o_define): User variables can be first defined > with `+='. In fact, I don't, because I now recall why I did that. It is related to pluseq7 which fails with this test, and it wa

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-17 Thread Akim Demaille
| > "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Robert> 3) src/Makefile.am: cf_gen_DEPENDENCIES must be set with `=' | Robert> before using `+=' | >> We recently talked about this with Tom, and we agreed that there is | >> no reason not to do that (but to protect the user from he

Re: problem: unitialized +=

2001-04-11 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> 3) src/Makefile.am: cf_gen_DEPENDENCIES must be set with `=' Robert> before using `+=' >> We recently talked about this with Tom, and we agreed that there is >> no reason not to do that (but to protect the user from herself, but