Re: [Gptfdisk-general] Makefile Patch

[Bruce D. <bru...@gm...>]

Antoine Leca wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I'd like to suggest updating the Makefile.
> Can you explain why you want this project to use GNU make features, when
> it did not before?
>
> Not that it is not wrong to do so, just that it is a change which is
> worth mentioning since it cut compatibility (at least with BSD make, and
> to a lesser degree with POSIX make and Microsoft nmake), and which IMHO
> should warrant some documented reason.
>
> Also, perhaps it would be nicer for the path to the destination man page
> and program to be indexed by configurable variables like are CC, CFLAGS
> etc. (also perhaps consider replacing cp with ${INSTALL})

I'm not familiar with the limitations of the other make implementations, 
but since that's an issue, it would be nice if someone who is could 
implement the principles of the submitted patch.

   -- Bruce