problem with Makefile

[David A. Gatwood]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:26:05PM +0800, Rolf Liu wrote:
> >
> > current work
> > is to translate the Makefile of linux-ppc into a standard one, such as one
> > for windows-based
> > Makefile,which is meaningful to other standard "make" utilities,including
>
> There is a standard make.  It's POSIX, I believe.  The linux makefile
> is pretty close to it.  Why on earth would you want to use Microsoft or
> Borland tools (which are nmake, not make, IIRC) to build a kernel?

As a fun exercise?

Seriously, though, what would be good would be to modify the makefile to
eliminate all gnu extensions, i.e. converting it into a pure lowest-
common-denominator makefile (yes, it's probably POSIX).  That would allow
it to be built under other OSes, including Windoze, but also *BSD, Darwin,
MacOS X, etc.  That having been said, it's a pain in the backside to do
that sort of thing, so I wish you lots of luck.  ;-)


David

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