| Akim Demaille writes:
| >
| > Sorry, I'm confused, and the documentation snippet didn't really
| > enlighten me :(
| >
|
| Hi Akim,
|
| The reasoning was fairly tortured :)
|
| To document the patsubst internal change I had to invent a contrived
| example so that the user could see the expansion. That example has
| problems...
|
| There are two possible solutions:
|
| * document patsubst in the context of the user dep files patch, where
| the behavour is truly static.
| * patsubst expand variables before they hit Makefile.in. (enabled by
| an option to protect people (e.g. myself) who already abuse Automake
| by passing through patsubst expressions).
|
| From your reaction, I suspect the second might be the better
| solution. Unfortunately it is more work...
Yep, by default Automake must not let the users do nonportable
things. I'm sorry about that, but I believe it's a strong
requirement.
I'd like to hear from Alexandre and Tom though.
