Re: Unportable makefile example in "Makefile Convention" section

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2024-05-06 at 13:47 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I was referring to the GNU Coding Standard manual
> 
> It is portable across GNU systems, other systems are not a high
> priority.  The mission of the GNU project is to develop the GNU
> system after all, and the GNU Coding Standards document that.

Sorry Alfred but I can't agree with your statements here.

The entire reason that the FSF and GNU project expend so much energy
and time on things like autotools and gnulib, is exactly so that GNU
projects can, with relatively little effort, be portable to non-GNU
systems.  We absolutely DO care, a lot, about this and the GNU coding
standards are intended to reinforce this portability, not just hardware
portability.

If all we cared about was portability to GNU systems we could do away
with 99% of autotools and gnulib; basically everything except
portability between older and newer versions of glibc-based systems.