On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:

> I am trying to "extend" a variable in my Makefile.am.  Doing
> 
> CXXFLAGS += -pedantic
> 
> fails, giving me only -pedantic and nothing else.
> 
> trying
> 
> CXXFLAGS = $(CXXFLAGS) -pedantic
> 
> gives me just that...literally.  $(CXXFLAGS) doesn't get expanded.
> 
> How am I supposed to do this correctly (um, coolo... ;) )

That is a bug in automake 1.4, iirc. Extending was
"introduced" in 1.4, but it is broken.

Bye,
Matthias.