From:	pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject:	Re: automake help needed
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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2001 00:57:31 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
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>You're looking in the wrong place. You need an _automake_ conditional,
>here, not a Make conditional. And automake only supports 'if', not
>'ifdef'. Make operators 'ifdef' and 'ifeq' are GNU extensions which
>automake doesn't use, in order to stay portable to non-GNU makes.
>
>I.e. you can't use GNU make conditionals in a Makefile.am, I think.

Thanks, Hans.  I was afraid that was the answer.  I've read over the
automake conditionals docs, which I think I understand, so I guess
I'll have to convert it to use them.

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