Re: can I suppress "invalid unused variable name"?

[Tim Van Holder]

This is really an automake issue, so I'm sending it there.

> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Steve M. Robbins
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 17:58
> To: GNU autoconf Mailing List
> Subject: can I suppress "invalid unused variable name"?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working with a library (CGAL) that is not autoconfigured, but has
> its own system that generates a makefile fragment with important make
> variables defined.  In particular, it defines CGAL_LDFLAGS.
>
> In my Makefile.am, I use
>
>       include $(CGAL_MAKEFILE)
>       ...
>       LDADD = ... $(CGAL_LDFLAGS) ...
>
> and automake complains:
>
>       Makefile.am: invalid unused variable name: `CGAL_LDFLAGS'
>
> [Incidentally, there used to be a line number attached to this diagnostic,
> but that suddenly stopped. (??)]
>
> Since automake does generate the correct output Makefile.in, I can
> live with seeing this message all the time.  However, I am concerned
> that this "warning" may change to an error in the future, and my
> builds will suddenly break.  Thus I wonder: what is the automake-blessed
> way to deal with including makefile fragments that define variables
> that automake considers its own?
>
> I used to be able to suppress this behaviour by a dummy assign to
> CGAL_LDFLAGS (before including CGAL_MAKEFILE, of course!).  But that
> trick has stopped working.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
>
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