On Thursday 2009-04-02 04:01, Eric Blake wrote: > >One of Ralf's concerns is that you can't do AC_SUBST([V], [1]), because it >interacts badly with various make implementations. That is, the Makefile >must not pre-define V as the only means of setting the package's default, >if it cannot be overridden by the user.
Oh? CFLAGS is also contained in Makefiles, as a result of automake expanding Makefile.am->.in, and usually filled with the default of -O2 -g, and yet can be overriden at make-time. At least, that is, for GNU make, which I happen to use..
