Subject: bug#7673: Bad option precedence: AM_AUTOMAKE_INIT and AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS might win over command line

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:47:36 +0100

On Saturday 18 December 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> The right precedence for *every* option would IMHO be:
> 
>  "command line" wins over AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> 
JFTR, this is where the issue came up first:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-10/msg00033.html>

Sorry for not adding that reference or citing the original reporter
(Andrew W. Nosenko) right away.

Regards,
   Stefano