Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 2/2] [ng] all, check, install: move more processing at make runtime

[Dave Hart]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 03:12 PM, Dave Hart wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Stefano Lattarini
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> * lib/am/header-vars.am: Sanitize $(SUBDIRS), by setting it to the
>>> empty value if it is not set, but not from the Makefile not any
>>> command-line override.
>>
>> I'm tied up in "nots" here.  The part after "but" confuses me.  I
>> didn't spend time reading the diff trying to understand what was
>> meant, I'm hoping you'll see the problem with the summary and clarify.
>>
> Oh damn, I'd just pushed before reading your message :-/
>
> And sadly you are right, and the wording is botched: SUBDIRS is now being
> set to the empty value if it *is* set, but not from the Makefile not any
> command-line override.

I have the same problem understanding that last sentence as I do with
the earlier summary:  I don't understand what you're trying to say
after "but".

> Oh well, what's done it done.

Is there no reasonable way to improve summary text after the initial push?

Cheers,
Dave Hart