On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:03:04AM CET: > > $ grep '\<source\>' lib/depcomp > > source Source file read by `PROGRAMS ARGS'. > > if test -z "$depmode" || test -z "$source" || test -z "$object"; then > > echo "depcomp: Variables source, object and depmode must be set" 1>&2 > > # the object too, otherwise makedepend will parse it as a source file. > > > > Does this mean that the `$source' variable is really not required > > by depcomp, or am I missing something? > > It seems that $source is indeed not required. > > I'd still be wary of removing it: users might have modified depcomp > scripts which use the variable. Yes, I consider that public API, > documented in 'depcomp --help', and with example usage in the manual. > > In a sort of transposed way, there are packages using depcomp (plus some > custom macros) which do not use Automake; we should not break them > either. > Makes sense. You can close the bug if you want (maybe with tag "wontfix"?)
Thanks, Stefano
