Re: [PATCH 09/25] syntax-check: fix violations and re-enable sc_makefile_at_at_check.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

[[automake list removed from Cc:]]

On 17 Nov 2011, at 08:08, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 06:04 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> Right, and even when I wrote the dubious comment quoted above in 2003, other
>> parts of libtool were still using macro expansions in make targets, so I 
>> think
>> the whole thing is probably a red herring.  Libtool has never fully supported
>> any make that can't deal with macros in targets, and we've never received a
>> complaint or bug report, which makes me think that if such a make exists, no
>> one wants to use it with libtool, so we can safely ignore the whole thing.
>> 
>> The NEWS entry I wrote for this commit is purely for future repo archaeology.
> 
> Then it's not NEWS-worthy.  It's worth keeping that analysis in the git
> commit message (as you say, for repo archaeology), but let's limit it to
> just there, rather than potentially causing users to worry about some
> perceived loss of portability when they read NEWS.

Good point.  I've moved the NEWS content to the gitlog message ready for when
I push the series.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)