[bug-inetutils] Re: inetutils-1.8 released

[Adam Sampson]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:42:31PM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> That doesn't explain why though, which is what I'm interested in.  The
> `if' construct is automakeism and gets expanded during ./configure,
> whilst ifdef is makeism and is dynamic.

Yes, that's why -- automake only knows about "if", not "ifdef", so if it
sees an "endif" without a corresponding "if" it'll assume you forgot
one.  There's no provision for passing through GNU-make-specific stuff
like ifdef, which is probably a good thing since it means you can't use
it by accident in a Makefile that you intended to be portable...

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Adam Sampson <address@hidden>                         <http://offog.org/>