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A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
In my first decade writing Makefiles, I developed the bad habit of liberally using GNU Make’s extensions. I didn’t know the line between GNU Make and the portable features guaranteed by POSIX. Usually it didn’t matter much, but it would become an annoyance when building on non-Linux systems, such as on the various…
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Software EngineeringTools & Productivity2017
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2017 | A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles by signa11 | 324 | 105 |
| Aug 1, 2022 | A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017) by hardwaresofton | 130 | 67 |
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