Come now - the broken excuse is an excuse. There's plenty of crap free
software out there and some poor bastard trying to build it who can't
change the source because the people who own it think it should be make's
problem.

:-)


Cheers,

Tim


On 29 April 2013 19:00, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > cc fred.c -c -o fred.o
> > cc bob.c -c -o bob.o
> > error on line 20 -XXXXX
> > error on line 30 -dddd
> > error on line 330 -dddd
> > makefile:342: recipe for target 'fred.o' failed
> > makefile:350: recipe for target 'bob.o' failed
> >
> > ?
>
> "Doctor, my hammer has a head so large that I always hit my thumb"
> "Throw out that hammer and get a non-broken one"
>
> The GNU tool working around the brokenness of some non-free software?
> Some would call that collaboration in retaining your chains.
>
> :-/
>
> ----
>
> I haven't had a chance to play with the new functionality in the
> repository, so I'll merely caution that having major new functionality
> that will affect the user experience be on by default runs the risk of
> there being a problem and having the new version be
> tarred-and-feathered, and the projects that would most benefit from
> the new functionality instead turning it off.  If there are other
> fixes and/or features in this release that people are waiting for,
> burning them on this would be unfriendly.
>
>
> Philip Guenther
>



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