Common makefile (gasp) stuff

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/13/15 8:49 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> It's a few lines of duplication, as opposed to adding another point of
> failure to the build process, i.e. common.mak isn't found or the wrong
> one is found, etc.

I'd have difficulty agreeing with this. If dmd is found then whatever is 
there is found. It's a deterministic process, not an arbitrary path 
lookup dependent on system vagaries.

Plus... duplication only grows.

> I've always tended to avoid using make macro include's for this reason.

I think I failed to grasp the reason.


Andrei