On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:16:18 +0100 > Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > > Dear Hiltjo, > > > 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. >
To clarify, I did not mean to say this makes a POSIX make lint tool useless. > yes, this also helped me identify some issues, but as far as I know all > of them implement e.g. ":=" and "?=" and macros in target rules. Of > course one might say that it's enough to cover multiple > implementations, but given there's often no reason to use extensions, > something like Mattias proposed would really come in handy. > > With best regards > > Laslo > -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
