Re: silent build rules

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2009-04-02 04:01, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>One of Ralf's concerns is that you can't do AC_SUBST([V], [1]), because it
>interacts badly with various make implementations.  That is, the Makefile
>must not pre-define V as the only means of setting the package's default,
>if it cannot be overridden by the user.

Oh? CFLAGS is also contained in Makefiles, as a result of automake
expanding Makefile.am->.in, and usually filled with the default of
-O2 -g, and yet can be overriden at make-time. At least, that is, for
GNU make, which I happen to use..