Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:17:00AM CET:
> Following up to my own mail,
No. :-) This opened a new bug report. I'm closing it, for reasons
explained below.
> it seems I have been missing something
> basic all these years, since it's never come up in my own packages:
Following up to my own mail, it seems I have been missing something
basic all these years, since it's never come up in my own packages: in
order to use the directory variables like $(LIBDIR) in the code, it
seems each package has to hack them in to config.h, e.g., via gnulib's
"configmake" module.
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:00:56PM CET:
> On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Question is, does removing the arguments break other, legitimate uses?
> > Or was this functionality purely added at a time before automake could
> > trace configure.ac macros?
On Sunday 02 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
>
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:38:45PM CET:
> > Currently, the Automake-generated rebuild rules[1] invoke automake with
> > some command-line options derived from arguments given to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
> >
