* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:03:04AM CET: > $ grep '\<source\>' lib/depcomp > source Source file read by `PROGRAMS ARGS'. > if test -z "$depmode" || test -z "$source" || test -z "$object"; then > echo "depcomp: Variables source, object and depmode must be set" 1>&2 > # the object too, otherwise makedepend will parse it as a source file. > > Does this mean that the `$source' variable is really not required > by depcomp, or am I missing something?
It seems that $source is indeed not required. I'd still be wary of removing it: users might have modified depcomp scripts which use the variable. Yes, I consider that public API, documented in 'depcomp --help', and with example usage in the manual. In a sort of transposed way, there are packages using depcomp (plus some custom macros) which do not use Automake; we should not break them either. Thanks, Ralf