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@@ -550,8 +550,11 @@ check-AUTHORS:
# Ensure that we use only the standard $(VAR) notation,
# not @...@ in Makefile.am, now that we can rely on automake
# to emit a definition for each substituted variable.
+# We use perl rather than "grep -nE ..." to exempt a single
+# use of an @...@-delimited variable name in src/Makefile.am.
makefile-check:
- @grep -nE '@[A-Z_0-9]+@' \
+ @perl -ne '/\@[A-Z_0-9]+\@/ && !/^cu_install_program =/' \
+ -e 'and (print "$$ARGV:$$.: $$_"), $$m=1; END {exit !$$m}' \
$$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT) | grep -E '(^|/)Makefile\.am$$') \
&& { echo '$(ME): use $$(...), not @...@' 1>&2; exit 1; } || :