16 Sep
2017
16 Sep
'17
12:20 a.m.
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
|> 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...
Schily make is even melodramatic and/or digital:
?1[steffen@wales tmp]$ smake love
smake: Can't find any source for 'love'.
smake: Couldn't make 'love'.
?1[steffen@wales tmp]$
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)