Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest))

From: Joerg Schilling
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 11:56:15 EST


"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Smake helps to find non-portable code, this is something completely
> > different!
>
> Umm - Joerg, you just stepped on your own toes there. A makefile validator
> does exactly that - helps people find non-portable code. You're fighting a
> losing battle when you claim one thing then say something that proves it
> false.

Wrong: a CD box with Suse or Redhat Linux may act as a door stop.

Does this make it a doorstop?

Jörg

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