From: Rhialto (rhialto@azenomei.knuffel.net)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 12:45:09 CEST
On Thu 05 May 2005 at 07:53:04 +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> rhialto> I think many of the assignments in the Imakefile should use
> rhialto> ?= instead of =, so that they can usefully be set from the
> rhialto> Imakefile.local.
>
> I've a problem with that. As far as I know, that's highly dependent
> on GNU make. Unless we can clearly say that such an assignment
> operator is supported by all makes out there, I'm not sure I want to
> go for it.
It is also supported by Berkeley Make. Otherwise I would never have
proposed it, since I don't use GNU Make if I can avoid it at all.
The ?= construct is used a lot in NetBSD system makefiles.
But your alternative idea is of course even more portable. That should
work even on V7-style Makes.
-Olaf.
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