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 ... ;-) Cheers, Ralf