This is the mail archive of the
automake@gnu.org
mailing list for the automake project.
Re: envariable check still buggy
- To: Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
- Subject: Re: envariable check still buggy
- From: François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 27 May 1999 09:41:29 -0400
- Cc: Volker Borchert <bt@teknon.de>, automake@gnu.org
- References: <199905271100.NAA19202@Uranos.teknon.de> <87hfoybqz4.fsf@ascend.com> <oqu2syvdn0.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca>
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Hi, Jim, and people. I do not know how Automake currently stands with
> the loss of parallel-able Makefiles (which it once produced).
Oops, English subtlety, here. I should probably have written "I do not
know where" instead of "I do not know how". I'm sure Automake stands very
well without parallel make. It would just stand better with them :-).
P.S. - It is _so_ easy, for an non-English speaker, to write things having
a widely different meaning, without noticing it at all, just because an
adverb was wrong or missing. English is kind of treacherous to those not
knowing it well. Always read non-English writers with many grains of salt.
They most probably never meant what you understand from their prose :-).
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard