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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:37:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- References: <00f301c6c20c$8e864c80$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:51:01 +0100
>
> > The thought of adding a cygwin-specific function to make and then making
> > sure that it exists as a noop in any other version of make seems a little
> > pushy to me.
>
> Well, it could always just not exist, and people can hide it in wrapper
> funcs or ifdefs.
ifdefs are a clear sign of non-portability. I think we should try to
avoid that as much as possible.
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