Hello, On Sat, Sep 20 2014 at 05:48:30 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdao...@yandex.com> wrote: > Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > |Bernd, are you aware that Steffen has done exactly the opposite in > |commit efc407da104b7882a8139b7ba4b1e2909dfded76? Unfortunately, I no > |longer can remember why he did the change (and there isn't an > |explanation in the ChangeLog)... > > It was not used consistently all across the codebase. > > .. And also i personally don't see the point in adding a make > variable for a single program, whereas all others are fixed. > So -- if you want to change the way program xy behaves, write > a shell script that behaves the way you want and place it first in > PATH=. > > |Note that `RM' should be rather defined once in a top-level Makefile > |and not many times in the various `Makefile.sub' files.
On the automake2 branch I've added a m4 macro to detect if RM is supported by make. If it's not the case I force RM = rm -f in the top-level Makefile.am. $(RM) can then be safely used in any .am file. I haven't replaced all the rm -f by $(RM) though. Regards, -- Bertrand Garrigues
