Re: 02-define-exts.patch

[Akim Demaille]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> Akim> Time for another set of explanations :)
> Akim> I seem to have understood that we don't support
> 
> Akim> if foo
> Akim> bin_PROGRAMS += foo
> Akim> fi
> 
> Akim> (or am I wrong?).  If so, why?
> 
> 
> I think we ought to support this but we currently do not.  We don't
> support it because, previously, making it possible to have a variable
> both conditionally and unconditionally defined was too hard.
> 
> Now I think we can handle it, we just have to implement it.
> 
> I think there is an automake PR on this issue.

Good to know!  That issue was making my life harder with vars.  Making
it possible to have seem possibly defined both conditionally and
unconditionally seemed easier than forbidding it!