On Sunday 05 December 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:50:52PM CET: > > On Sunday 05 December 2010, Jack Kelly wrote: > > > make prefix=$HOME/stow/foo-x.y.z > > > > So whatever you do with the variable ordering, I hope it doesn't break > > > overrides from the command line. > > > > > Oh, it must absolutely not break that, since the behaviour you want is > > mandated by the GNU coding standards, and cannot be changed. Breaking > > it would be a *grave* automake bug. So I guess you're safe in this > > respect. > > Of course, the GNU Coding Standards are a bit oblivious of existing > limitations of non-GNU make implementations at this point; see > info Autoconf "Macros and Submakes" > > Oh well. Another issue completely unrelated to this PR ... ;-) > Well, let's just say the `prefix' overriding should continue to work with GNU make as it did before ;-) ...
Regards, Stefano
