Le 27 juil. 2012 à 10:39, Stefano Lattarini a écrit : > * lib/am/header-vars.am (DESTDIR): It's not because we want to allow
I guess s/not//. > it to be defined from the environment, for compatibility with mainline > Automake. For better clarity, define an (empty) default with the line > "DESTDIR ?=", instead that with the commend-out definition "# DESTDIR=". commented. instead of > -## We used to define this. However, we don't because vendor makes > -## (e.g., Solaris, Irix) won't correctly propagate variables that are > -## defined in Makefile. This particular variable can't be correctly > -## defined by configure (at least, not the current configure), so we > -## simply avoid defining it to allow the user to use this feature with > -## a vendor make. > -## DESTDIR = > +# We want ithis to be overridable from the environment, for better this > +# compatibility with mainline Automake. > +DESTDIR ?= Yet I think "We want" is too verbose in general. "Make it overridable…", or "Be overridable…", or even "Overridable…" is better IMHO.
