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SubjectRe: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest))
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:36:01PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > ??? smake _is_ a real world make program and if you rate POSIX compliance
> > and portability, it will outstrip all other known make programs.
>
> does anybody (except for the author, of course) use
> smake for building their stuff? just curious ..

Many people use smake on platforms where there is no other
sufficiently compliant make program.

As GNU make incorrectly states to run on many plaforms, there are
a lot of people who suffer from the fact that GNU make is not maintained
since > 6 years.

Note that I did make bug reports against GNU make that have been accepted as
bugs but never fixed!

Jörg

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