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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-10-02 20:34:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-10-02 20:34:47 +0200 |
| commit | 7411adcdad588acf2a167dd05e5a942fa752e90e (patch) | |
| tree | c23c6cdd38990b3e7d0739a3e15b115131399a6f /doc | |
| parent | 154fedbdbbc962f112989cc3c963daa4467b7618 (diff) | |
| parent | b8651afd8279a6eb86648b08579776eec368f8fb (diff) | |
| download | automake-7411adcdad588acf2a167dd05e5a942fa752e90e.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
config headers: remove stale comment in makefile fragment
NEWS: wording and quoting fixlets in few older entries
config headers: don't emit rules for headers not generated by autoheader
docs: fix minor typo: s/expending/expanding/
sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch"
maint: post-release minor version bump
maint: typo fixes s/lies into/lies in/
release: stable release 1.12.4
NEWS: minor fix
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/automake.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 13db2c1c5..7058545ec 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -2956,9 +2956,11 @@ Automake will require the sources file declared with macro. @item AC_CONFIG_HEADERS -Automake will generate rules to rebuild these headers. Older versions -of Automake required the use of @code{AM_CONFIG_HEADER}; this is no -longer the case, and that macro has indeed been removed. +Automake will generate rules to rebuild these headers from the +corresponding templates (usually, the template for a @file{foo.h} +header being @file{foo.h.in}). Older versions of Automake +required the use of @code{AM_CONFIG_HEADER}; this is no longer +the case, and that macro has indeed been removed. As with @code{AC_CONFIG_FILES} (@pxref{Requirements}), parts of the specification using shell variables will be ignored as far as @@ -11817,7 +11819,7 @@ Although @samp{$(wildcard ...)} works with GNU @command{make}, it is not portable to other @command{make} implementations. The only way Automake could support @command{$(wildcard ...)} is by -expending @command{$(wildcard ...)} when @command{automake} is run. +expanding @command{$(wildcard ...)} when @command{automake} is run. The resulting @file{Makefile.in}s would be portable since they would list all files and not use @samp{$(wildcard ...)}. However that means developers would need to remember to run @command{automake} each |