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William D. Jones

@neauoire The exceptionally shitty thing about Make is that there are SO many variants that extend the original make program written by Feldman in incompatible ways.

Feldman wrote a paper in '78 on how his original make works. Knowing that you like portability, this is probably the make variant you want to target:

ewald.cas.usf.edu/teaching/200

11 Aug 2023 at 2:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Devine Lu Linvega

@cr1901 wow, thank you for linking this 👀

11 Aug 2023 at 3:02 | Open on merveilles.town
William D. Jones

@neauoire You're very welcome. I've been in your position before ("what subset of make is the safest to target?"), so I know where to look for info :D!

You can actually get somewhat far w/ 1978 make. I miss the lack of include files (to put user-settings in w/o checking it into version control), but I'm sure you'll manage :D!

11 Aug 2023 at 3:05 | Open on mastodon.social
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