Re: Conditional append

[Shaun Jackman]

Thanks Stepan. I'm going to go with your latter suggestion, since it
doesn't require modifying all the other Makefile.am. This seems like a
rather arbitrary limitation of automake though. Is there any reason
why the append operator shouldn't treat an undefined variable as
empty?

Cheers,
Shaun


> 2) Or the extra.am starts with
>         CLEANFILES =
> and each caller takes care not to touch it before the include.
> So the former snippet will become
> 
> bin_PROGRAMS = hello
> include $(top_srcdir)/extra.am
> CLEANFILES += something
> 
> HTH,
>         Stepan Kasal