Hi Zack,
"Zack Weinberg" writes:
> Automake conditionals were originally created because make
> conditionals aren't portable. In principle, if you are willing to
> require GNU make (or any other specific Make that has conditionals)
> you shouldn't *need* Automake conditionals.
>
> Of course, thi
Hi Karl,
Karl Berry writes:
> Hi Maxim - thanks for the report and doing the research to find that old
> answer. Do you have any ideas for a better solution? I can't think of
> one. We can't change Automake syntax now. Nor does it seem maintainble
> for automake to have special knowledge of all
Hi,
The problem appears simpler than I first thought; it seems Automake is
hard-coded to expect 'endif' to be matched with its own 'if'; causing parsing
errors when attempting to use Make's conditional such as ifdef, ifeq,
etc. that also end with 'endif'.
This was reported 23 years ago here:
htt
Hello,
Consider the following:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
$ guix shell --pure automake autoconf coreutils grep \
--with-latest=automake --with-latest=autoconf --without-tests=automake
[...]
[env]$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72
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