On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:23:47AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> What about the ".for" stuff and LOOPLIST?
>
> (.for might be part of "standard" make, but I have never seen it
> used before.)
It's BSD make specific.
As I mentioned in the previous mail, the good thing about both GNU make
and BSD make is that if they see a file called GNUmakefile and
BSDmakefile, respectively, they will use that file first, rather than
Makefile.
So, autoconf, I suppose, could be made to produce two files:
Makefile, with GNU pattern rules, and BSDmakefile, with BSD .for loop.
That way, both makes will be happy, and you cover rather big user base
(Linux + {Free,Net,Open}BSD).
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