Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:42:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: makefile help
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On 23 Feb 1997, George Foot wrote:

> : Hey, that's GNU Make we are using, remember?  It doesn't need to be
> : told all these trivia, it already knows about them.  All you need is
> : to tell it something it *doesn't* know.  Observe:
> 
> Is this reliable, though? I would have thought the assumptions about
> what make does or doesn't know would be more susceptible to breaking
> on some users' systems. How universal is this stuff? 

GNU Make supports this for ages.  Most of other Make's also support the
same features, although not 100% identical (e.g., they typically won't set
CC=gcc by default).  But since GNU Make is available on any platform (you
can always ftp it and build it in minutes, if it isn't installed already),
why should you bother about other Make's? 

Anyway, as long as you use a tool, you should get to know its features, 
even if you don't always use them, right?