Though pretty much unix-related, I find this a good rule of thumb.

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Utilities-in-Makefiles

But otherwise there should be "configure" to figure out the machine 
differences.

Ralf

On 10/20/2009 12:04 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
> Only a few days ago you agreed we would not have RM, CP and other very
> basic commands set as environment variables.
> 
> IMHO, if someone wants 'rm -f' they should type it. Looking in the
> packages now, 95+% of people use 'rm' or 'rm -f' rather than '$(RM)"
> so I think it would be better to drop the use of such an environment
> variable.
> 
> Dave

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