Re: @....@ how does it work ?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Caleb Moore wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:44 +0200, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > you can use @MY_VAR@ in Makefile.am or some .in files such as
> > my_program.pc.in. configure will replace with the value.
>
> As I understand it, technically one should use MY_VAR in Makefile.am
> rather than @MY_VAR@ which is for use in Makefile.in, with the @s
> usually appended by automake. I'm not sure if it works with the @s
> already on it in Makefile.am, but it sure would look ugly.

Guess it should be $(MY_VAR).


> Probably just a trivial clarification but I thought it might be
> important.
>

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