Re: RFC: diagnose target clashes (for PR/344)

[Akim Demaille]

| >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
| [...]
| 
|  adl> I've not run the full test suite yet (only the first half of it
|  adl> plus specflag{7,8}.test); it's too late now.
| 
| I've done a full `make check' now.  Everything passes except
| `subpkg.test'.  This one aborts with:
| 
|   automake: `LDADD' is a target; expected a variable
| 
| (`LDADD' is the name of the binary in this test case.)
| 
| Apparently, with this patch I've fixed something that prevented
| this diagnostic from occuring.  (I'm not sure what.)
| 
| Now I'm wondering if this error still makes any sense today.  
| I guess it was because targets and variables used to share
| the same namespace in older versions of Automake?

As far as I remember, I kept this message in one case only: when we
were expecting one defined variable, but it turned out only a target
of the same name was defined, in which case, rather than saying
`undefined variable', a message like `you gave a target name where a
var name was wanted' seemed more helping.