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

[Eitan Adler]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 20:46:01 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> 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
>> 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?
> 
> GNU make is available everywhere.  install it and be done.  i may also point 
> out nano is a GNU project.
> -mike
I'm aware that I could add an extra dependency, forcing users to
download, compile, and install yet another program.  I am also aware
that there is a trivial patch that fixes the issue and makes the
Makefile portable.
I don't really care that much if you accept this patch or not.  I could
easily patch the port without it being accepted upstream.  Its just like
using valid XHTML though - no reason not to use the standards.

Eitan Adler
freeBSD nano-devel ports maintainer