> The following tangent is not so much a software hate than a people hate: > people using gmake features for no good reason should be sentenced to > port any GNU configure file into VMS' DCL, or possibly into VMS REXX.
I wrote a version of Make for VMS in 1983 that took the Makefile and generated a DCL script to DTRT... because the version of VMS we were using back then made running a program and waiting for the result any other way too hateful to contemplate. But that's not what this song is about. No, this song is just to wonder what the hell a "good reason" for using the gmake features is. I'm reminded of the discussion about black and white magic in The Incomplete Enchanter...
