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VPATH elimination by configure
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
VPATH elimination by configure |
Date: |
17 Jan 2001 11:17:00 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Crater Lake) |
It seems to me that Autoconf's job is not to remove unportable code
written by the user, so it seems wrong to have it remove VPATH
definitions from Makefiles. Historically I'm sure it was useful, in a
previous century, in a previous millennium. Today, I tend to think
automake should *warn* when it sees VPATH in a Makefile.am, and
autoconf should shut up and do nothing.
Comments?
(This, of course, is totally unrelated with the possible existence of
tests for VPATH support, which is fully under Autoconf's natural
responsibility).
- VPATH elimination by configure,
Akim Demaille <=
Re: VPATH elimination by configure, Tom Tromey, 2001/01/17