Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:50:01 -0500 Return-Path: Sender: std-cpp-request@vandevoorde.com Approved: stephen.clamage@oracle.com Message-ID: <51ACB83B.9080903@verizon.net> Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.std.c++ From: James Kuyper Subject: Re: A preprocessor feature we should have had 40 years ago Organization: Self References: <5444b5db-2bba-4b3a-a3ae-522607837c5c@g9g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Original-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:37:31 -0400 X-Submission-Address: std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:41:59 CST Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-X0xU3FFESBFZkJqqJoSjg0v1CHCnkAJWv8wmvjPuxzxrt/LhGXnH4qjpV8qQn5VBGnTZ2qeMmUEzKVB!Q+6feppEDcHtru9D4uJePW0axWLW21S72XZD4BM0fLhEPhXDEIT9Uw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2267 Xref: csiph.com comp.std.c:2025 comp.std.c++:633 On 06/01/2013 04:04 AM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: ... > the program with, or source for the executable tool; and then you have > to provide a customized makefile for the program that includes the > appropriate rule, which presumes the use of a particular make utility > since they're not standardized the way the language is. Some make utilities are standardized; POSIX make, for instance. Of course, that won't do you much good if your target platform doesn't conform to POSIX, but it's not the absence of a standard that's the problem; it's the fact that many systems haven't adopted it. -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try posting with your ] [ newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]