bug#10237: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

[Roumen Petrov]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 08:20 PM, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
>    
> > > I wanted a solution that worked
> > > on any POSIX platform -- POSIX 2008 says that
> > > $(aaa${bbb}) is just as unspecified as
> > > $(aaa$(bbb)) is, and I wanted to play it safe.
> > >
> > >        
> > As I see it, the only real way to play it safe here, per POSIX, is to
> > forgo the use of nested variables altogether.
> >      
> Exactly.  Hence the proposal for a configure-time check, which expands
> to the extension where the extension was tested to work, and which
> expands to an innocuous variant that avoids nested variables where the
> test fails.
>    

I remember one old discussion from automake list that end with following 
solution
lib_LTLIBRARIES = @address@hidden
@address@hidden = module.c
@address@hidden = -module -avoid-version

Following current discussion I think that next will be automake to be 
able to process following Makefile.am

MODULE = @MODULE@
lib_LTLIBRARIES = $(MODULE).la
$(MODULE)_la_SOURCES = module.c
$(MODULE)_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version

I think that is too early to request such automake functionality .

Roumen