* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 03:12:17PM CET: > Currently, the strictness-related options specified with AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > in configure.ac and with AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am win over those > specified on the command line:
> While this behaviour might have had its historical reasons, The question is, what reasons? > I think its > confusing, suboptimal, and inconsistent with that of pratically all the > sane Unix and GNU programs. I agree. > The right precedence for *every* option would IMHO be: > > "command line" wins over AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE Somebody needs to find out why the choices were done, and what breaks, when we change this. I remember that there were good reasons for this, but I all but forgot the details. Cheers, Ralf
