Simon Josefsson wrote: > > So the use of @...@ is not only appropriate here, it is even mandatory. > > So possibly the maint.mk check should be relaxed to permit constructs > matching FOO = ... @FOO@ then?
Yes, this is what I meant. > Then I think the current behaviour of maint.mk shoudld stay, unless > anyone else finds other corner cases -- this warning resulted a change > to use a more modern style in one of my projects. It is also commonplace to use Makefile.am to tweak a definition found by Autoconf. For example, I have MAKEINFO = env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= @MAKEINFO@ in several projects, otherwise makeinfo will put German or French navigation helps into an otherwise English documentation. Bruno -- In memoriam Siamanto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamanto>
