>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> In particular Automake cannot override user variables with
Akim> Automake variables.
Tom> Ok, that's good. But if the user defines a variable
Tom> conditionally then automake should still be able to define it
Tom> when the condition does not hold.
Ouch!
Hm, we should keep this somewhere, say TODO.
Akim> What are the ideal rules we'd like to have?
Tom> As much as possible variable assignments should work as the user
Tom> "expects".
Tom> Mostly we did ok here. But there were cases where we didn't.
Tom> For instance this didn't used to work:
Tom> foo = whatever if COND foo += something else endif
Didn't check (I'm finishing the application of the first chunk of
patches), but I see no reason for this not to work.
