Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:37:49AM CEST:
> I can see that in rare, rare cases, since MKDIR_P is a command, people
> may want to use different versions of it. But for things like @LIBINTL@
> and @LIBSOCKET@, it is still better to write them as @LIBINTL@, not
> $(LIBINTL),
> because if the corresponding autoconf macro was not run, it makes the error
> appear on all platforms. Otherwise it's too easy to write a Makefile.am
> that builds fine on glibc systems but not on Solaris or MacOS X.
You can still have this additional safety feature by using both
LIBINTL = @LIBINTL@
and
target:
$(LINK) ... $(LIBINTL)
in your Makefile.in files, or in your fragment.am snippets.
Overridability plus safety net! :-)
Cheers,
Ralf
