On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:16:18 +0100
> Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo_AT_codemadness.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Hiltjo,
>
> > In my opinion a practical way is to really test it on different
> > systems (bleeding edge Linux, older Debian stable, NetBSD, OpenBSD)
> > and GNU/Make, different BSD make programs.
> >
> > This doesn't cover the POSIX compatibility, but some make
> > implementations are not fully POSIX either and this also finds other
> > issues.
>
To clarify, I did not mean to say this makes a POSIX make lint tool useless.
> yes, this also helped me identify some issues, but as far as I know all
> of them implement e.g. ":=" and "?=" and macros in target rules. Of
> course one might say that it's enough to cover multiple
> implementations, but given there's often no reason to use extensions,
> something like Mattias proposed would really come in handy.
>
> With best regards
>
> Laslo
>
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Kind regards,
Hiltjo
Received on Fri Dec 31 2021 - 11:53:24 CET