change log for rtems (2011-05-18)

[Gedare Bloom]

I like the change. I find it painful to stay consistent in multi-line
statements in Makefile.am.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 03:46 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>> Is there a GNU standard for this?
>
> No.
>
>> I don't mind the change but this is a style change
>> and I wondered what the driving factor was.
>
> The driving factors are
>
> a) minimizing the impact of other parties changes (adding/removing files
> to/from Make-variables) on Makefile.ams
>
> I am nagged by other people's changes, which add/remove files to/from
> Makefile.am and are causing cvs-conflicts.
>
> b) Making make-variables better "grep'able"
>
> For now I've restricted myself to _HEADERS, because they are what I am
> currently looking into, but am considering to revive my (>10 years) old
> "ampolish" script to bring all Makefile.ams into the same style, in longer
> terms.
>
> Ralf
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