On 2015-04-18 11:35+0200 Stephen Kelly wrote:
Alan W. Irwin wrote:
So is it recommended that a two-step procedure be used to configure
a file? For example:
Yes, that seems to be a valid thing to do.
If the above complications for configured files are the only way to
deal with a mixture of @...@ items and generator expressions to
configure, could a change to configure_file so that it honors
generator expressions be implemented to avoid these complications?
Nope, generator expressions are only available at generate-time, but
configure_file is evaluated before that.
I was well aware of that so I assumed if this was implemented
configure_file would be moved to generate-time as well.
So there are really two questions here. (1) Could the move to
honoring generator expressions by configure_file (as well as moving
configure_file to generate time) be straightforwardly implemented, and
(2) would that move cause any problems for users (because of
the necessary move to generate-time).
Alan
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