On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 18:42 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote: […] > My understanding (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) is that > platform specific makefiles are used to account for different > versions of "make" itself, not to customize the actual build for > specific platforms (although this has happened by consequence of > the makefiles being split by platform). A unified makefile has > been desired but it'd require everyone to acquire and use > compatible versions of "make" on every platform and that is more > tricky. On Windows, Digital Mars "make" is provided with DMD/DMC > so its rather easy for everyone to get their hands on.
QED. Make was a revolution and a revelation in 1978: kudos to Stuart Feldman and collaborators. Today it is 2014. There are now better build systems. Ones that cope with platform differences. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
