Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe18.ams2.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 Subject: Re: Makefile portability References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.20.254.174 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe18.ams2 1303927555 86.20.254.174 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:05:55 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:05:55 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:53:03 +0100 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.unix.programmer:238 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:217 > Make has the benefit of simplicity. > ... except where it doesn't have that, such as in the situation set forth right at the start of this thread.