Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:45:41PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:13:38 +0200
> "Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, 10 August 2013 at 18:35:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> > wrote:
> > > Would it be acceptable to use gmake as *the* make for DMD? Ie,
> > > either convert the windows makefiles to gmake, or expand the posix
> > > makefiles to support windows?
> > 
> > 1. expand posix makefiles to support windows
> > 2. leave dm makefile for those who doesn't have gmake
> > 3. use unified posix/windows makefile
> > 4. everyone is happy
> 
> That still involves the overhead of maintaining duplicate makefiles
> and a tendency for gradual divergence.

It violates DRY, and thus inherits all of the associated problems.


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