Re: [Nano-devel] nano uses an unportable Makefile construct.

[Eitan Adler]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 19:40:21 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> The use of a $< outside a suffix rule is a GNU make extension and breaks
>> with other make implementations.  This needs to be replaced with $?, or
>> better yet, spell out the source file explicitly.
> 
> or better yet, go install GNU make
> -mike
Why require an entirely new program for a) something that can fixed by
one small change b) can be fixed upstream?
Why use a vendor specific extension when using a portable method is trivial?

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Eitan Adler
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