🚀 go-pugleaf

%% Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com> writes:

  tl> As we want our software developed on the SGI to be easier to build on
  tl> other systems, notably Linux, we are planning to ditch smake and start
  tl> using GNUmake instead (as I suppose smake exists for Irix only.) Can
  tl> anyone give me general rules, hints or any kind of information at all
  tl> about the process of rewriting Makefiles that use smake specific
  tl> features like conditionals, special targets/sources and variable
  tl> expansion modifiers?

Go get the GNU make manual.  It's available (of course) in Texinfo and
info format in the distribution, and it's available for purchase in
hardcopy from the FSF or computer bookstores (this sends the FSF $'s,
moreso if you order it directly--yay!), and it's available online from
the FSF's web site in various formats (HTML, DVI, PostScript, text):

  http://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html

There are two chapters there of particular interest as you start out:
one listing features found in one or more other implementations of make
which don't exist in GNU make (often with suggestions for translation)
and another listing features found in GNU make that may or may not exist
in other versions of make.

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