Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Tom> In the past we handled this correctly because automake would try to
 Tom> define the `meal' target, but would then notice that there was already
 Tom> one in Makefile.am, so it would not define its own.

 Tom> But that changed because we now always use $(EXEEXT), so the names
 Tom> don't appear to be the same.

 Tom> I think the best fix is to go back to conditionally using $(EXEEXT).

Wow, this is really different from any fix I would have
imagined.  (From my point of view Automake should not emit a
link rule for unknown languages, but maybe that would be a
feature and it's not time for this.)

I see $seen_exeext is set to 1 when Automake encounter
AC_EXEEXT.  AC_EXEEXT has been obsoleted in Autoconf 2.50 which
now always compute EXEEXT.  Isn't this why Automake
unconditionnaly used $(EXEEXT) ?

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz