On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, June 17, 2011 11:17:45 Jie Zhang wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > On Monday, June 13, 2011 17:22:27 Jie Zhang wrote:
>> >> * Automake changes some variables used in the rules in the patch. We
>> >> can just take a look at the generated rules in Makefile.in to see what
>> >> a new rule looks like and modify accordingly.
>> >
>> > this is more than many people can handle
>>
>> This kind of argument makes no sense at all. I, or someone, or someone
>> in future, really cannot handle some code in UrJTAG, should we remove
>> those code?
>
> my experience across many many many packages in the open source world is that
> people who cannot fathom autotools simply tweak things until it starts
> working.  ive seen a bit of this in urjtag as well.
>
> that means if you arent here, the code you propose will simply get slapped
> around until people stop complaining/filing bugs.
>
> i believe that the code i propose has a much lower chance of that occurring.
>
I'm trying to understand how your patch fixed this issue. I don't
think it's easier to understand than my patch. It seems that yours
depends on this observation: Automake does not substitute the variable
in target when processing the user defined rule. Is this a documented
feature?

Regards,
Jie

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