Re: sc_makefile_at_at_check and gettext LOCALEDIR

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > So the use of @...@ is not only appropriate here, it is even mandatory.
> 
> So possibly the maint.mk check should be relaxed to permit constructs
> matching FOO = ... @FOO@ then?

Yes, this is what I meant.

> Then I think the current behaviour of maint.mk shoudld stay, unless
> anyone else finds other corner cases -- this warning resulted a change
> to use a more modern style in one of my projects.

It is also commonplace to use Makefile.am to tweak a definition found
by Autoconf. For example, I have

  MAKEINFO = env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= @MAKEINFO@

in several projects, otherwise makeinfo will put German or French navigation
helps into an otherwise English documentation.

Bruno
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