Re: configure/RELEASE contents

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> Including other makefiles doesn't work because convertRelease.pl just looks at 
> definitions (of the form NAME=VALUE), not at everything (gnu-)make 
> understands (include, etc...).

The configure/RELEASE file was designed to contain only filesystem 
location information for the build system to use, and the syntax must be 
reasonably simple because we don't want to make the parser too complicated 
(we can't do everything with just gnumake which is why we have to parse it 
ourselves).  Any other build configuration information should probably be 
in the configure/CONFIG or configure/CONFIG_APP files instead.

The convertRelease.pl parser understands include statements that point to 
other RELEASE files, causing it to read and parse them in turn.

- Andrew
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