Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 2012-09-20 13:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> config.status also doesn't fully expand the variables, though, which is
>> something that you'd want for this sort of application. Otherwise, you
>> have to know all of the possible ways in which one variable could
>> reference another so that you can set all of them (and you can only
>> write files that have a variable resolution system, although pkg-config
>> does have one). Note that the user can do things like
>> --libdir='${datadir}/foo' at configure time, even if it's not common.
> Ah, but make will fully expand the variables.
Only the ones that you're explicitly overriding. What about all the other
variables that you may want to use with the same values that were set
during configure?
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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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