Need help deciphering posix.mak

[uri via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 December 2014 at 10:48:15 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Dicebot"  wrote in message 
> news:kgogertqxpmczhoqrimp at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> That or just clean up the existing makefiles (getting rid of 
>> DMC make and using GNU make on all platforms would be ideal). 
>> Or just doing nothing - while existing build system is quite a 
>> mess, the problem is not critical enough to extend the 
>> infrastructure.
>
> As much as I dislike digital mars make, requiring GNU make on 
> windows would be worse.  One of these days I'm going to rewrite 
> the dmd test suite to not require make at all, but I'm going to 
> have to figure out how it works first.

I think I'd much rather GNU make.

No offence, but there's no chance your little tool will ever get 
the same test coverage or real-world use testing of GNU make on 
Windows.

This is why I prefer CMake like tools over dub. Plus make -jX is 
*much* faster than dub build (and SCons for that matter).


/uri