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Re: AM_SUBST
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: AM_SUBST
- From: Thomas Tanner <tanner@ffii.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:14:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>, Automake List <automake@gnu.org>
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Tom Tromey wrote:
> Thomas> In the long run wouldn't it be reasonable to have
> Thomas> an AM_SUBST macro and ignore AC_SUBST's in automake?
> Thomas> (I know it'd be an incompatible change)
> Why would you want this?
If you AC_SUBST a lot of variables the Makefiles become
unnecessarily big. It'd be certainly cleaner if automakes
doesn't add all variables to the Makefiles, either by
ignoring AC_SUBST() or maybe by ignoring those specified by
AM_NO_SUBST()? The latter would be backward compatible.
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