On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:49:23 +0100 crae...@gmail.com wrote: Dear craekz,
> As far as I can see, we could add `.POSIX` to the following programs: > dwm, dmenu, dwmstatus, sent and tabbed > I've just looked over the Makefiles very briefly, so I may have > overseen something. Note: I just picked out the "biggest" programs. sadly the make-implementations out there don't offer a "strict" mode to warn you about non-compliance or undefined behaviour. GNU make (as usual with GNU products) added a lot of GNU-extensions and poisoned the entire ecosystem. It's really easy to write non-compliant makefiles and have things silently break or behave slightly different across implementations. Adding a .POSIX target is one thing, it's another to actually verify the makefiles are POSIX-compliant. It would be a cool project-idea to write a very strict POSIX-compliant make-implementation that, if it includes extensions, marks them as such and prints a warning if desired. mk by plan9 is also very nice, of course, but makefiles are the common denominator in the scene and it might be a cool incentive to have such a validating make. A lot of new systems are used all over the place, like cmake, ninja and whatnot, so it might be cool to show how zen it is to just work with a make-based build-system. One example is the really trivial way to package suckless-projects, e.g. libgrapheme[0]. It doesn't get simpler than that. With best regards Laslo [0]:https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=libgrapheme
