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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typo: s/AM_V_AT/AM_V_at/


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typo: s/AM_V_AT/AM_V_at/
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:00:58 +0200

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:06:03AM CEST:
>> I noticed my recent doc changes caused slightly-too-verbose
>> build output.  This fixes it:
>>
>> Cc'ing bug-automake, in case Ralf thinks it makes sense to let
>> the consistently capitalized name be used some day.
>
> Actually, I was thinking for a while that these names are all ugly, and
> replacing them with something like
>   SILENT     = $(AM_V_at)
>   SILENT_GEN = $(AM_V_GEN)
>   SILENT_*   = $(AM_V_*)
>
> instead would be better.  But that means we have a dead set of variables
> to support (at least for a while) ...

Hi Ralf,

I do prefer the readability of $(SILENT), etc. but wouldn't
names like that impinge too much on the user's name-space?




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