SERVER_DEFINES in Makefiles -> substitute vs. variable reference

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu May 25 16:07:29 PDT 2006


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 15:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just seen, the config variable SERVER_DEFINES is used as
> substitute ("@SERVER_DEFINES@") in several Makefile.am instead
> of an variable reference ("$(SERVER_DEFINES)"). Using variable
> references seems to be more clear to me.
>
> Is there any valid reason for not changing it to refernces ?

They shouldn't ever produce different results.  Consistency would be a good 
thing, yeah.

- ajax
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