On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 01:52:42AM -0800, Arthur Williams wrote: > I too fell victim to the GNU trap and thought "?=" was standard and > actually useful. > > > and want to "dynamically" override it (e.g. in a build system context) > > when the environment already specifies PREFIX, you either do > > > > make -e > > Completely forgot about the -e flag. Now I need to go update all my > projects and who knows what other GNU-isms I'm unknowingly using. >
Hi, In my opinion a practical way is to really test it on different systems (bleeding edge Linux, older Debian stable, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and GNU/Make, different BSD make programs. This doesn't cover the POSIX compatibility, but some make implementations are not fully POSIX either and this also finds other issues. > > that is exactly what I meant earlier on that the POSIX-intended good > > practices get destroyed by the retarded GNU extensions. > > Yeah you make a strong argument. I too think a linting tool would be > useful. I imagine it would function like shellcheck does for shells. If > nothing else it would really help people identify GNU extensions vs > portable behavior. > -- Kind regards / Happy new year, Hiltjo
