Re: PATCH: patsubst support

[Akim Demaille]

| Akim Demaille writes:
|  > 
|  > Sorry, I'm confused, and the documentation snippet didn't really
|  > enlighten me :(
|  > 
| 
| Hi Akim,
| 
| The reasoning was fairly tortured :)
| 
| To document the patsubst internal change I had to invent a contrived
| example so that the user could see the expansion. That example has
| problems...
| 
| There are two possible solutions:
| 
| * document patsubst in the context of the user dep files patch, where
|   the behavour is truly static.
| * patsubst expand variables before they hit Makefile.in. (enabled by
|   an option to protect people (e.g. myself) who already abuse Automake
|   by passing through patsubst expressions).
| 
| From your reaction, I suspect the second might be the better
| solution. Unfortunately it is more work...

Yep, by default Automake must not let the users do nonportable
things.  I'm sorry about that, but I believe it's a strong
requirement.

I'd like to hear from Alexandre and Tom though.