>>>>> "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 = 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 useful in some situations. For instance, suppose in a very large project you want to `include' some boilerplate. Then you might conditionally override some value or another in a particular Makefile.am. Before Akim's rewrite of variable handling, we really couldn't do this. We just didn't have the internal abstractions. Now it might be possible, but I haven't looked. Tom
