Re: Supporting include in Makefiles

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> BTW, does Automake *use* that feature?  If not, then it should not
> provide this macro IMHO.  It should stop distributing macros, that's
> Autoconf job, not Automake's.

It is used internally to support the dependency tracking mechanism.
It is almost definitely not intended as a generic mechanism to support
Makefile includes.

After all, automake already has it's own support for including
makefile fragments -- and that mechanism is already portable to
'make's that don't support any form of 'include's.

- Hari
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