Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> writes: > Thanks for the report and looking into the code. There have been > previous reports relating to targets and conditionals, e.g., > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13940 (from 2013 ...) > and I think it's been mentioned in mail and elsewhere, too. > > Updating the doc is no problem, thanks. But I'm not sure how to do a > real fix. The conditional might be defined at configure-time, so > automake can't know whether it's true or not when it's running, as far > as I can see.
Hm, this is very good point I failed to realize. > Maybe you or someone else has a clearer idea of how to proceed? Dropping the magic related to these special files is probably not possible now, so only realistic option I see is to document the edge case and move on. Not great, so I hope someone will have a better idea. :/ Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
