Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:03:41AM CEST: > > $(VAR) certainly adds a level of flexibility over @VAR@, but I find that > rarely useful.
Still, the standards.texi authors found that additional flexibility so useful that they explicitly document it as required for a set of tools (node: Utilities in Makefiles). This flexibility is for *users* (not for you, the developer) who won't or can't fix or override configure right there. That situation comes up again and again in practice. Cheers, Ralf
