> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:06:54 -0400 > > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 21:28 +0100, Jonny Grant wrote: > > I have a few, but triggered by make -f makefile.mak. So it would be > > quite useful GNU Make could pick up the Windows makefile extension > > .MAK > > If Eli feels this is useful for Windows implementations he can add it; > however, I don't want this added for the non-Windows ports. I've never > seen anyone name a makefile like this on any UNIX/POSIX system, ever. > > As Reinier points out, on UNIX/POSIX systems you often see ".mk" used as > an extension, but never (IME) "Makefile.mk"; UNIX/POSIX environments > don't rely (solely) on extensions and (again IME) have no problem > understanding that files named "Makefile" or "makefile" are makefiles, > even without extensions.
Should we add "Makefile.mk" for Posix hosts and "makefile.mak" for Windows, then? > Renaming the Windows README files is also fine with me if it's fine with > Eli. My only doubt about this request is that README files for other platforms will still be called README.<system>. Should we rename them all? _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
