Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread stephen Turner
I do like the idea of the warning “this is not posix” or “this is a gnu’ism”. It would be cool to have a suggested changes as well to possibly encourage posix usage. Do you know if there is a gnu make test to verify all features are included and working? I’m currently looking for a gmake test

[dev] [announcement] jack_patchbay: ncurses patchbay for jack

2018-12-30 Thread Robin Pedersen
Hi. I made a software: https://gitlab.com/byllgrim/jack_patchbay "Terminal (ncurses) patchbay for jack audio connection kit, written in C89, used to connect ports of jack clients." It's very minimal so maybe some of you people are interested. Regards Robin.

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread stephen Turner
I was thinking of a cleaner gnu make. The code you guys have written while I am having a hard time reading it, has inspired me to attempt once more to learn C. I have always thought gnu was bloated but a significant improvement over windows. I got started when redhat was free (1999?) and about

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread rain1
On 2018-12-30 01:32, stephen Turner wrote: If one was going to rewrite a cleaner make what would be the recommended approach? I see in a slightly older 2012 release of the code entries for windows 32 and amiga. I’m questioning why! Would it be worth while to strip make of these items and then

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 11:48:26 +0100 Daniel Cegiełka wrote: Dear Daniel, > There is one problem: to build a Linux kernel, you need GNU make > extensions. There are also many other programs that require GNU make > extensions (eg musl libc). 100% POSIX[0] make means you will have to > install GNU

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
niedz., 30 gru 2018 o 10:36 Laslo Hunhold napisał(a): > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:32:13 -0500 > stephen Turner wrote: > > > Really helpful would be a make-implementation that is 100% POSIX[0]. It > makes me sad to see that most Makefiles use GNU-extensions, as they are > not necessary in most

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:32:13 -0500 stephen Turner wrote: Dear Stephen, > If one was going to rewrite a cleaner make what would be the > recommended approach? > > I see in a slightly older 2012 release of the code entries for > windows 32 and amiga. I’m questioning why! > > Would it be worth

Re: [dev] Make cleanup

2018-12-30 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 08:32:13PM -0500, stephen Turner wrote: > If one was going to rewrite a cleaner make what would be the recommended > approach? > [...] > I am not skilled enough to start from scratch [...] > Maybe start with that. Make is a pretty simple algorithm: You build a dependency