On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 17:35 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > This also disables every extension over C, especially POSIX. > > Is this a *bad* thing or a *good* thing ? What is the actual language > dialect that GNU Make wishes to be compliant with is the real question.
Like all GNU software, it is written to work with a minimum version but uses autoconf facilities to take advantage of the newest capabilities it can detect... that's kind of autoconf's raison d'être. So, it is not useless to test building with all improvements turned off because it lets us know whether our attempts to support very old environments are still working properly. But I would not recommend using such options when trying to compile an actual, useful GNU make for everyday use, as it will be full of workarounds and hacks and won't take advantage of modern POSIX features which give better behavior and performance. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
