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GNU make / DJGPP make difference? (Developers)

posted by marcov, 01.09.2008, 11:44

> > I know GNU make from *nix and the port mingw32-make, both are identical.
>
> There's actually some reason they keep mingw32-make separate from just
> calling it "make", but I forget (not POSIX enough??). BTW, I'm no makefile
> pro, but I do know that makefiles are almost never portable and are hard to
> write effectively (or read, IMO).

I suspect it has something to do with hard tabs (the whitespace before targets) and newlines format. Some windows/dos makes allow crlf, some are still lf, and consider cr chars "error".

For editing makefiles I use (on Windows) cygwin joe, but I'm a bit rusty since FPC changed to entirely generated makefiles 4-5 years ago.

Complete thread:

• GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - mr, 30.08.2008, 19:01 (Developers)
  • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - Rugxulo, 31.08.2008, 00:38
    • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - mr, 31.08.2008, 02:04
    • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - marcov, 01.09.2008, 11:44
  • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - mr, 31.08.2008, 02:07
    • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - Laaca, 31.08.2008, 09:55
    • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - Rugxulo, 31.08.2008, 20:40
  • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - Rugxulo, 02.09.2008, 04:50
  • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - mr, 02.09.2008, 14:40
    • GNU make / DJGPP make difference? - Rugxulo, 02.09.2008, 22:49