Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] [ng] rename: am__newline -> am.chars.newline

[Akim Demaille]

Le 24 juil. 2012 à 16:03, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> On 07/24/2012 03:54 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> 
>> Le 24 juil. 2012 à 15:40, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>> 
>>> diff --git a/lib/am/header-vars.am b/lib/am/header-vars.am
>> 
>> Maybe these vars should be defined elsewhere.
>> 
> Where do you suggest?

A file named after their namespace.

am.chars.am for am.chars.*

etc.

> BTW, while I'm fully open to the idea, I believe it is something that
> can be left for later.

Sure, even renaming can be :)

> Who knows, we might even decide to put the
> definitions of all auxiliary variables and functions that do not use
> any '@...@' substitution in a '*.mk' file to be distributed in the
> build-auxdir of the client project, and then included by all the other
> generated Makefiles …

Yeah!  A whole new future of Automake hacking will be possible!