Hi Страхиња,

On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 02:33:22PM GMT, Страхиња Радић wrote:
> Дана 24/10/04 07:36AM, Sebastian J. Bronner написа:
> > Fixed. I had never heard of config.mk before this. A also was not 
> > able to find any documentation mentioning it anywhere. But I put it 
> > back the way it seemed to be intended. Can you point me to some 
> > documentation about config.mk files?
> 
> Most is informal, "unwritten tradition", there is not much formal
> documentation about the suckless "standards" (specifically related to
> setting up the build files) around that I'm aware of, except of course
> those few pages:
> 
> https://suckless.org/coding_style/
> https://suckless.org/hacking/
> 
> and some bits here:
> 
> https://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/
> 
> but everything is deducible from the files of existing suckless.org and
> related projects on /0 (dsp, lostd, sin), codemadness.org (hiltjo),
> r-36 (20h) etc:
> 
> https://git.2f30.org/
> https://codemadness.org/git/
> https://www.r-36.net/scm/
> 
> config.mk is the build "configuration/initialization file" of a
> project. It replaces the slow, buggy and often inaccurate Auto*hell's
> "automatic detection", with direct manual configuration.

thanks for the pointers. They are very helpful. While I had completely
read the first two links, I was completely as unfamiliar with the other
four.

Kind regards,
Sebastian Bronner

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