Re: [Plplot-devel] Use $(VAR) instead of @VAR@ in Makefile.am

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

Rafael Laboissiere writes:
 > In doing my last changes, I noticed that in many Makefiles.am, constructs
 > like @MATWRAP@ and @MKOCTFILE@ are used.  This is bad practice.  Use
 > $(MATWRAP) and $(MKOCTFILE) instead, which is the standard, advised style.
 > 
 > The reason for this is simple: variables could be replaced in the invocation
 > of make, like this: 
 > 
 >     make MKOCTFILE=my-mkoctfile
 > 
 > Using the construct @VARIABLE@ prevents doing that.
 > 
 > This is not a particular problem in the PLplot project, since I guess that
 > people barely need the variable substitution feature.  However, try to
 > follow the good usage rule, please. 

I *thought* I noticed some odd behaviors when testing plplot using this style
of build, weeks ago.  Glad you got to the bottom of it.

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