Re: portability as a goal for debian?
Jason Gunthorpe writes:
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>`` Don't write portable make files, use a portable make ''
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>Is still my favorite quote and very much directly applicable to this
>argument.
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>I fully belive in that sentimate, btw.
Amen to that. We've got a product that builds on 4 platforms: AIX,
Solaris, FreeBSD and NT. The first thing I did for sanity when I
started with the company was to mandate the use of GNU make across all
platforms (yes, even NT - for _some_ binaries). I _tried_ to make the
Makefiles work for all the makes, but...
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