> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:40:46 +0100 > From: Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Paul D. Smith" <psm...@gnu.org>, "bug-make@gnu.org" <bug-make@gnu.org> > > > How can one deal with them? The underlying OS is not easily > > detectable by Make. > > > > the same way one creates 1 makefile that can build the same code for 2 > operating systems - something done every day. You make it up. You run > uname with $(shell) or you pass in an argument from a top level script that > does know the platform or whatever. In the end you have a bit of makefile > that says: > > foo.dll: foo.obj > ..... > load foo.dll > > or > > foo.so: foo.o > .... > load foo.so
First, there's no uname on Windows. You are in fact saying that in order to run a Makefile one would need something similar to autoconf. More importantly: this is a lot of trouble we are going to impose on _users_, just to decide which one of the two extensions to use, something that Make can know a-priori to begin with. How does that make sense? When users will ask why didn't we teach Make to do that automatically, what answer will we have for them? _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
