Updating dlang.org documentation

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 18:42 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote:
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> My understanding (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) is that 
> platform specific makefiles are used to account for different 
> versions of "make" itself, not to customize the actual build for 
> specific platforms (although this has happened by consequence of 
> the makefiles being split by platform). A unified makefile has 
> been desired but it'd require everyone to acquire and use 
> compatible versions of "make" on every platform and that is more 
> tricky. On Windows, Digital Mars "make" is provided with DMD/DMC 
> so its rather easy for everyone to get their hands on.

QED.

Make was a revolution and a revelation in 1978: kudos to Stuart Feldman
and collaborators. Today it is 2014. There are now better build systems.
Ones that cope with platform differences.

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