Re: Octave-Forge: requirement for a maintainer Makefile for release

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/23/2016 06:18 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> I have uploaded a template with several comments [1] which I hope it
> explains most of the magic.  Can you take a look and maybe expand [2]
> any magic that was not obvious to you at the start?

I generally avoid inheriting values from the environment if possible, so 
instead of

  OCTAVE ?= octave

I would just write

  OCTAVE := octave

You can still set the value on the command line, but you have to do it 
with a variable assignment in the argument list that is passed to make:

  make OCTAVE=/some/other/octave

Doing it this way avoids the mysterious problems and confusion that can 
happen if someone has set OCTAVE in their environment and then later 
forgot about it.

jwe