Re: bsd building

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:22:14PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     > Not understanding Automatic variables is a severe limitation for a 
makefile.
     > Perhaps we could work around it for now, but I'm sure it'd come back and 
bite
     > us in the future.  (for example if we built using a virtual transparent 
     > filesystem).
     
     This is a less of a problem than you think.  Some "make" programs
     understand automatic variables in implicit rules, but not in
     explicit rules.  
     
OK.  I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks for explaining it.
     
     I don't think we do anything fancy with Makefiles that would
     require the use of GNU make.
     

There's some things in Smake which I wouldn't trust to anything else, but 
that's not seen by users so I guess it's a special case.

J'

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