GNU bug report logs - #32269
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, subdir-objects, and $(DEPDIR) not being set correctly

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From: Philip Prindeville <philipp <at> redfish-solutions.com>
To: 32269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Expanding variables
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:12:23 -0600

Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we could add something like:

val.%:
	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
		echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \
	)

var.%:
	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
		echo "$*='"'$(subst ','"'\"'\"'"',$($*))'"'" \
	)

toward the bottom.  Then if we found a line matching /\$(\([^)]+\))/ then we could look up “val.\1” from the match, and substitute that back in.  Obviously the more matches, the more iterations and the more “make -s val.\1” lookups.  But at least it would work.

If we used a Perl helper, we could find ALL of the matches, and do ALL of the lookups at once in make for more constant time, since we’d do one make process per line regardless of how many substitutions were required.

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