On Thursday 19 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:39:29PM CEST: > > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > I suppose automake could be enhanced to also define $(OBJECTS) > > > as the set of all objects. > > > > What about libtool objects? Should we care about them? I'm > > writing a couple of (xfailing) testcases to check a prospective > > patch introducing $(OBJECTS) (BTW, is such a general name enough > > namespace-safe? I hardly think so...), and I don't know what to > > do for libtool objects. > > At this point I'm not sure if it's safe or worthwhile to add either > of them. This is a pretty special case here, and we don't really > have much use for this otherwise, do we? > Generally, I think the idea a couple of years ago was to move away > from the all-collecting variables such as $(SOURCES), $(PROGRAMS) > etc. Haven't dug history to find out for sure why, though. Agreed. I'll let the testcases I've written committed to a local branch, just in case.
Regards, Stefano
