> On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/18, Philip Prindeville <phil...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>> Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we
>> could add something like:
>>
>> val.%:
>> @$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
>> echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
>> echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \
>> )
>>
>> var.%:
>> @$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
>> echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
>> echo "$*='"'$(subst ','"'\"'\"'"',$($*))'"'" \
>> )
>>
>> toward the bottom.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of this is, but it doesn't
> look like portable code, so probably not something Automake should
> be generating.
>
> But don't let that stop you. You can add basically anything you'd
> like, including the above rules, to your project's Makefile.am and
> Automake will copy it through to the output.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes.
How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with?
-Philip
