Update of bug #64472 (project make): Status: None => Not A Bug Open/Closed: Open => Closed
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #3: I think there's some confusion. The section you are reading is simply describing some tips for writing portable makefiles. If you use those utilities your makefiles are more likely than not to be portable across POSIX-based systems. That section doesn't mean to say that every one of those utilities also has an associated variable defined as a built-variable in make. The variables specifically listed on that page exist. No other utility on that page has a variable associated with it. I agree that the text "Additional utilities that can be used via Make variables are" is misleading but this just means that you could use these utilities via make variables (if you created the make variables). It's not intending to say that these variables already exist. To me this entire section is not really useful anymore, or at least large parts of it are not useful: POSIX systems are far more compatible, and lots of people use GNU Make on non-POSIX systems (like Windows) which aren't well-served by this section. You can run "make -pf/dev/null" to see all the built-in rules and variables in your instance of GNU Make. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64472> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/