Re: Considered Harmful 73d213: "Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs"

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/05/2016 03:08 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
> The main problem is that use of cask tends to weave in and out of
> different Emacs and also Makefiles. So, I use this:
>
> EMACS ?= emacs
> CASK ?= cask
>
> -include makefile-local
>
> all: install test
>
> install:
>         EMACS=$(EMACS) cask install
>
> Which (did) work fine on Emacs-25

But that doesn't work on Emacs 24, right? And if you do something like 
the following:

    EMACS ?= emacs
    CASK ?= cask

    ifeq ($(EMACS),t)
      EMACS = emacs
    endif

    install:
        EMACS=$(EMACS) cask install

This should work with both Emacs 24 and emacs-25 current.