Subject: Re: bug#32269: Expanding variables

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:15:22 -0500

On 07/25/2018 05:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes.
> 
> How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with?

At the moment, all of them.

Automake 2.0 (currently a work in progress if you check out the right 
branches in git) requires GNU make, for more compact makefiles at the 
expense of ditching portability to other arcane makes, now that GNU make 
is more likely to be easily obtained on modern systems.  But automake 
1.x still tries as hard as possible to produce Makefiles portable to all 
common make implementations, as long as your Makefile.am doesn't add 
non-portable code to be passed through to Makefile.

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