On 6/30/2010 3:41 AM, Wesley Smith wrote: >> From the automake manual: >> > You may only test a single variable in an if statement, possibly > negated using ‘!’. The else statement may be omitted. Conditionals may > be nested to any depth. You may specify an argument to else in which > case it must be the negation of the condition used for the current if. > Similarly you may specify the condition that is closed on the endif > line: > > if DEBUG > DBG = debug > else !DEBUG > DBG = > endif !DEBUG > > > What's the purpose of "specifying the condition that is closed"? I've > never seen this kind of construct before. Is it a substitute for > elseif? >
Documentation. There may be several dozen lines of code between the if and the else. A reader may be wondering... else what? John
