[[automake list removed from Cc:]] On 17 Nov 2011, at 08:08, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/16/2011 06:04 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Right, and even when I wrote the dubious comment quoted above in 2003, other >> parts of libtool were still using macro expansions in make targets, so I >> think >> the whole thing is probably a red herring. Libtool has never fully supported >> any make that can't deal with macros in targets, and we've never received a >> complaint or bug report, which makes me think that if such a make exists, no >> one wants to use it with libtool, so we can safely ignore the whole thing. >> >> The NEWS entry I wrote for this commit is purely for future repo archaeology. > > Then it's not NEWS-worthy. It's worth keeping that analysis in the git > commit message (as you say, for repo archaeology), but let's limit it to > just there, rather than potentially causing users to worry about some > perceived loss of portability when they read NEWS.
Good point. I've moved the NEWS content to the gitlog message ready for when I push the series. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
