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Re: [Fwd: Doc problem]
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Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: |
Re: [Fwd: Doc problem] |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:34:25 +0100 |
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:08, cedric pinson wrote:
> From: cedric pinson <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Doc problem
> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:19:03 +0100
>
> Hello,
> I had a problem to pass a option from configure to my makefile. I have
> followed the doc about AM_CONDITIONAL with this scheme:
> if COND_OPT
> MAYBE_OPT = opt
> endif
> SUBDIRS = src $(MAYBE_OPT)
>
> but when I ran automake i have an error about the variable MAYBE_OPT
> (MAYBE_OPT is undefined). To resolve that we have added this code:
> if COND_OPT
> MAYBE_OPT = opt
> else
> MAYBE_OPT =
> endif
> SUBDIRS = src $(MAYBE_OPT)
> And all seems to be ok. It's not a big problem but when we follow the
> documentation it doesnot work. So this is a patch for the documentation.
>
> But maybe i am wrong and the documentation explains in detail this
> behaviour.
Which version of automake are you using?
The symptom you describe matches a deficiency in out-dated versions of
automake that had been made functional a long time ago.
Ralf