On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, John Calcote <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/30/2010 3:41 AM, Wesley Smith wrote: >>> From the automake manual: >>> >> You may only test a single variable in an if statement, possibly >> negated using ‘!’. The else statement may be omitted. Conditionals may >> be nested to any depth. You may specify an argument to else in which >> case it must be the negation of the condition used for the current if. >> Similarly you may specify the condition that is closed on the endif >> line: >> >> if DEBUG >> DBG = debug >> else !DEBUG >> DBG = >> endif !DEBUG >> >> >> What's the purpose of "specifying the condition that is closed"? I've >> never seen this kind of construct before. Is it a substitute for >> elseif? >> > > Documentation. There may be several dozen lines of code between the if > and the else. A reader may be wondering... else what? > > John > >
Does it matter if the endif condition is COND or !COND?
