| This also works for things like
|
| foo = mumble
| foo = blurgle
|
| which would be interpreted as
|
| foo = blurgle
| if FALSE
| foo = mumble
| endif
I've always thought this is wrong. I still think we should not
support such ``feature'', which is a form of laxism to me,
Reviving an old thread about the following construct.
foo = mumble
if COND
foo = blurgle
endif
Tom I've long thought that we should, eventually, support the
Tom latter use. It seems to have a clearly defined meaning.
Tom And it is even useful in some situations. For instance,
Tom
Tom Tromey wrote:
Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
adl but you can't do
adl if INSTALL_SNPRINTFV
adl pkgincludedir = something
adl endif
I've long thought that we should, eventually, support the latter use.
It seems to have a clearly defined meaning. And it is even
Akim Demaille wrote:
| Cool. Since we do not need amk 1.6.3 for our build,
| I will change the configure.ac requirement to 1.6.2,
| which does work.
What ... ??? The bug I'm referring to is only the
fact that the error message did not say `1.6.3 is a version of
Automake'. There is no
Hi Bruce!
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Bruce 2. The automake error reporting bug that said I did something bad,
Bruce but there was not enough information to find the problem
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/header-vars.am: \
pkgincludedir was already defined in
adl == Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
adl However, I presume not all your Makefiles use both
adl INSTALL_SNPRINTFV and pkgincludedir, so it shouldn't be that
adl hard to locate.
You can also try `automake --verbose', this will print any file
read, so you can see what
Alexandre wrote:
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/header-vars.am: \
pkgincludedir was already defined in condition TRUE, \
which implies condition INSTALL_SNPRINTFV_TRUE
You are alowed to overwrite the variable if you want, but only
in the condition where it was initially defined.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
Another approach is to go ahead and emit the Makefile.in,
but also emit a warning like this:
cat 2 _EOF_
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
WARNING: you seem to be misusing ${variable} in ${filename}
adl == Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
adl You are alowed to overwrite the variable if you want, but only in
adl the condition where it was initially defined. I.e., you can do
adl pkgincludedir = something
adl but you can't do
adl if INSTALL_SNPRINTFV
adl pkgincludedir
