bug#32269: Expanding variables

2018-07-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Jul 25, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 07/25/2018 05:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes. >> How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with? > > At the moment, all of them. > &g

bug#32269: Expanding variables

2018-07-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > > On 7/25/18, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we >> could add something like: >> >> val.%: >> @$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*

bug#32269: Expanding variables

2018-07-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we could add something like: val.%: @$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\ echo "$* undefined" >&2, \ echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \ ) var.%: @$(if $(filter undefined,$(or

bug#32269: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, subdir-objects, and $(DEPDIR) not being set correctly

2018-07-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
I’m using automake 1.15.1 on Fedora 28. I changed my AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() to include subdir-objects. As soon as I did this, I started seeing failures like: make[2]: Entering directory '/home/philipp/git/snt/libntp' Makefile:902: warning: overriding recipe for target '../lib/isc/pthreads/.dirstamp

bug#7689: Fwd: Due for a new release?

2010-12-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 12/22/10 3:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: tags 7689 notabug close 7689 thanks On Monday 20 December 2010, Philip Prindeville wrote: The odd thing is that even though it complains, it still generates the correct Makefile in the first case: SYMFILES = $(srcdir)/uni.h $(shell $(CC) $(CFLAGS

bug#7689: Fwd: Due for a new release?

2010-12-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 12/22/10 4:36 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: reopen 7689 ! tags 7689 -notabug severity 7689 whishlist retitle 7689 Disable portability warnings about make portability issues only? thanks On Thursday 23 December 2010, Philip Prindeville wrote: On 12/22/10 3:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote