On 24/09/2015 8:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
It's a peculiar sense of "more portable". Yes, gmake is portable in that its source is available and can be compiled on many platforms. But I think you mean, rather, that gmake supports makefiles which are non-portable in that they do not conform to POSIX standards.
Absolutely! I see portability as how easy it is to port something, not in a standard which has become somewhat stagnant. I can build stuff on Linux, OS X and even windows quite easily. z/OS is always a struggle, and not always because of the dreaded EBCDIC but runtime functions. z/OS and it's strict conformance to POSIX can be a PITA. The z/OS C/C++ compiler has a lot of GNU comparability features that I really do wish the USS stack had. But I guess the compiler shares
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