15 Sep
2017
15 Sep
'17
9:33 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote:
Oh, I nearly wept when I read this. Building a typical project nowadays
FreeBSD's make used to say 'not war' but when bmake was imported from
NetBSD, that went away and the maintainers aren't keen on brining back the
joke :( I added it years ago, but haven't missed it enough to fight the
political battle to get it back in...
Warner
is so painful -- the makefile works on one
particular Linux distro and woe
betide the rest.
Ah, well I remember when "make" was first introduced (in PWB?); I thought
it was Christmas...
Now, even it has to be modified for various platforms.
Trivia: what does "make love" say on your system? My Mac boringly says
"make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop." and the FreeBSD box
isn't
much better: "make: don't know how to make love. Stop". I don't know
what
my Penguin laptop says because it's currently switched off.
Sigh...