Re: Last part of PR/347: warn about $(foo bar).

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for your comments.

>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Ralf> AFAIU, you disable a lot of useful features for people who intentionally
 Ralf> use automake for gnumake-Makefiles files .

 Ralf> Furthermore I am concerned about you wanting to parse and warn about
 Ralf> variables which are not subject to automake's activities.

The point is to help people writing portable Makefiles.
Portable Makefiles are one of the goals of Automake.

 Ralf> To conclude, I am opposed to this, without having an option to disable
 Ralf> this feature.

This is a warning, not an error.  You can enable it with -Wportability
and disable it with -Wno-portability (either can be set in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
as one of the test case shows).  Is this enough?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz