Autotools Style Guide

This page contains style guidelines for the OpenOCD autotools scripts.

The following guidelines apply to the configure.ac file:

• Better guidelines need to be developed, but until then...
• Use good judgement.

The following guidelines apply to Makefile.am files:

1. When assigning variables with long lists of items:
   1. Separate the values on each line to make the files "patch friendly":

      VAR = \
          value1 \
          value2 \
          ...
          value9 \
          value10