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FYI: Clarify NEWS entry


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: FYI: Clarify NEWS entry
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:11:29 +0200
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2003-10-21  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * NEWS: Clarify the entry about multiple conditional definitions
        of _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD.
        Report from Simon Josefsson.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.231
diff -u -r1.231 NEWS
--- NEWS        30 Sep 2003 19:05:53 -0000      1.231
+++ NEWS        21 Oct 2003 13:11:18 -0000
@@ -145,8 +145,9 @@
 
     Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
 
-  - Automake now supports bin_PROGRAMS (or any *_PROGRAMS variable)
-    being defined in several conditions.  As in
+  - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
+    proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
+    likes bin_PROGRAMS:
 
       if COND1
         bin_PROGRAMS = a1
@@ -155,7 +156,9 @@
         bin_PROGRAMS = a2
       endif
 
-    Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
+    All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
+    This restrictions has been lifted, and these variables now
+    support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
 
   - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
     $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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