Re: [Plplot-devel] I can't install HEAD version

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > Also, are we pushing gnu-make too much with this variable overriding
 > business? I have just looked fairly carefully in the info documentation
 > under the variable section, and I cannot find any reference to what happens
 > if you define a variable twice.  (I know what would happen in
 > Fortran....;-))

I do recall struggling with the issue back when I built the current system of
base definitions coupled with overrides, but I don't remember the details.
Fortunately in this case the dependency info wasn't actually being used so
could just be chopped.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)