Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest))

[Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>]

On 02/23/2006 16:48 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>	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.
>>	

Hmmm... from the GNU Make web page:

	Version 3.80 (stable) released on 2002-10-04 00:00:00.000

Seems to me that's slightly less than 6 years, but then I was never
that great at math... Maybe I missed something....



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