Few automake-generated recipes have the necessity to determine at runtime whether a particular make mode/option is active (e.g., '-k' or '-n'). To do so, they analyze the content of the $(MFLAGS) make variable.
But the exact format of this variable has been changed in the development version of GNU make, thus breaking those recipes: # With make 3.82, compiled from official tarball: $ make -f- <<<'all:; @echo $(MFLAGS)' -I none -I none # With development version of make: $ make -f- <<<'all:; @echo $(MFLAGS)' -I none -Inone Is there a reason behind this change? If not, could it be reverted? No big deal if the change is intended, as I can certainly and easily improve the Automake recipes instead. Thanks, Stefano _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
