On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:07:06 +0100 Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> wrote:
> 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 I've actually being thinking of writing a makefile linter. How interested would people be in such a tool? The reason to have a linter separate from a make utility itself is that it would not have to reject non-standard features that you don't want to implement in make. And I also think it would for cleaner implementation of both projects. Additionally, I would suspect that a lot of people would just stay with GNU make because it's in every distro, so having it as a separate project would probably give it wider adoption. > 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 >
