Need help deciphering posix.mak

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d"  wrote in message 
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> > does this mean that 'make' will be eventually dropped? oh, noes...
>
> One idea I had, which is easily done in SCons, is to auto-generate
> makefiles for each platform. On the dev box, run scons with a particular
> virtual target, say `scons genmake` or something like that, and it will
> iterate over each supported platform and spit out a makefile using the
> dependency tree it already knows. The generated makefile will be a list
> of hard-coded rules for building stuff, with no macros and what-not, so
> it will Just Work, but not do much more than that. These generated
> makefiles can then be shipped as part of the source distribution, but
> they need not (and probably should not!) be in the git tree.

I think we should be ok adding the generated files to source control, so 
long as the autotester is set up to verify they have been updated.