Re: [PATCH] perl: perl subroutine prototypes are evil, don't use them

2013-04-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-03/msg4.html On 03/05/2013 09:22 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Basically, they are not really prototypes, but rather a trick to have user-defined subroutines that behave more similarly to perl built-in functions, by allowing

Re: Add missing '$' for variable expansion in depout.m4

2013-04-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Gavin, and sorry for the delay. Thanks for the patch --- and well spotted BTW; I'm a little ashamed such a blatant typo had escaped my attention so far! On 04/11/2013 08:12 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: (I hope I have prepared this patch properly.) Not really, because we prefer patches formatted

[FYI] Branch 'experimenta/preproc' deleted

2013-04-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
It had already been successfully merged into the 'maint' branch.

[FYI] {maint} automake: refactoring: factor out common cpp-like flags

2013-04-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* automake.in (@cpplike_flags): In this new variable... (C, C++, Objective C, Objective C++, Unified Parallel C, Preprocessed Assembler, Preprocessed Fortran, Preprocessed Fortran 77): ... to be used by registration (with the 'register_language' subroutine) of these languages. This is a

[FYI] {master} compat: reinstate support for obsolete $(INCLUDES) variable

2013-04-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Since INCLUDES and AM_CPPFLAGS can be both used at the same time in a single project, and interact in a non-obvious way, switching away from INCLUDES is, unfortunately, not simply a matter of doing a mindless INCLUDES - AM_CPPFLAGS substitution. In fact, the transition from a INCLUDES + CPPFLAGS