Subject: Re: non-pkgsrc emacs or clone
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/23/2005 13:03:03
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Klaus Klein wrote:

> > The "makefile" in that directory does not specify .h as a .SUFFIX. Adding that,
> > makes it work.
>
> So FWIW, POSIX has a set of default .SUFFIXES, and .h isn't one of
> them, whereas GNU make indeed does define it regardless of
> POSIXLY_CORRECT being set in the environment.

Which means the Lynx makefile is actually broken, and just "happens to work"
on some OS's by lucky chance of a nonstandard extension in the system-level
makefile fragments.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>