* aclocal.in, aclocal.m4: Standardize FSF Copyright statements.

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / lib / am / header-vars.am

diff --git a/lib/am/header-vars.am b/lib/am/header-vars.am
index 06eab55..aa82f86 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/am/header-vars.am
+++ b/lib/am/header-vars.am
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ## automake - create Makefile.in from Makefile.am
-## Copyright (C) 1994-99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+## Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
+## Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -38,7 +39,13 @@ oldincludedir = /usr/include
 
 @SET_MAKE@
 
-DESTDIR =
+## We used to define this.  However, we don't because vendor makes
+## (e.g., Solaris, Irix) won't correctly propagate variables that are
+## defined in Makefile.  This particular variable can't be correctly
+## defined by configure (at least, not the current configure), so we
+## simply avoid defining it to allow the user to use this feature with
+## a vendor make.
+## DESTDIR =
 
 ## Some derived variables that have been found to be useful.
 pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/@PACKAGE@