Hi Ben, * Ben Pfaff wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:22:58PM CEST: > Current Automake appears to reorder the Makefile.am so that all > variable assignments precede all rules, so in a Makefile.am the > relative order of variable and rule definitions does not matter.
Right. > Is this behavior documented? I thought so, but can't find it right away now. In any case, we cannot guarantee to *not* reorder because the flattening of += and the expansion of conditionals would probably not work otherwise. > Is it guaranteed to remain in the future? I could not easily find > mention of it in the manual, but it is sometimes convenient. Yes, that is the intention, and yes, I agree that it is convenient. Thanks, Ralf
