Am 05.01.2016 um 23:41 schrieb Gavin Smith:
> On 5 January 2016 at 21:05, Thomas Martitz <ku...@rockbox.org> wrote:
>> Automake source code is a myth to me, I wasn't able to find the code that
>> implements this limitation (only the place where the warning is printed
>> (variable_value() => $self->check_defined_unconditionally in Variable.pm)
>
> There's the following code in the top-level 'automake' script -
>
> if ($var)
> {
> # FIXME: should use the same Condition as
> # the _SOURCES variable. But this is really
> # silly overkill -- nobody should have
> # conditional shortnames.
> $dname = $var->variable_value;
> }
>
> does that help?
>
I saw that, but I couldn't make sense of it. What does that mean? I get
that the developer deemed it overkill but I can't follow that reason.
Best regards
