thanks James helped clarify this off-list (at my request) my original comment was in this (inappropriate for ON) context * if the makefile must make a test then it should test the capabilities of the system and not the existense of a command in /bin * as James and you point out, ON makefiles need no target-specific tests because the target and its capabilities are implicit
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:23:13 -0700 Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:32:26AM -0400, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > shouldn't the test be that exec(2) recognizes shcomp binaries? > No! As James Carlson pointed out, doing tests against the build > system is fundamentally wrong. ... > No autotools-like behaviour in ON, please. Bad enough that SFW is > allowed to get away with it.
