Re: ifdef expessions in Makefile.am

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Joakim,

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Thanks, but I can't make that work for me
> AM_CONDITIONAL seems to be an automake 1.11 feature
>   

That seems inaccurate because I've used AM_CONDITIONAL since 2004.

> and the AC_SUBST variant does not quite fit
> Basically I want:
> if @TEST@ then
>  SUBDIRS+= dir1/dir2/@TEST@
>  SUBDIRS+= dir3/dir2/@TEST@
>  SUBDIRS+= dir4/@TEST@
> ....
> endif
>
>   
Would you mind, rather than telling us what syntax you wanna use, let us 
know why you cannot use AM_CONDITIONAL. In particular it would be useful 
to know where the value of @TEST@ is decided? What values can @TEST@ take?

Thanks,
Peter

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