Re: GNU Makefiles, Portable ?

[Tristan Van Berkom]

Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I'm sure they are listed in the distribution somewhere, but here is a
> list:
>
>   * Any UNIX/POSIX OS, including all the biggees (Linux, Solaris, *BSD,
>     HP-UX, AIX, etc. etc.) plus the less well-known ones.
>
>   * MS-DOS (16-bit)
>
>   * Windows of all types (32-bit)
>
>   * OS/2 (need either the next (currently unreleased) version of GNU
>     make, or external patches)
>
>   * AmigaDOS
>
>   * OpenVMS

Thanks for the prompt reply ;-)


>   tvb> This is a re-post of a message sent to "address@hidden" *with*
>   tvb> the quotes, my mailer added them, and sent the message without
>   tvb> errors but it doesn't seem to have made it through...
>
> Nothing came through.  The quotes make this an illegal address; the
> contents of quoted strings are ignored by the mailer.  That's why things
> like:
>
>   "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
>
> work properly...

looks like:
    "address@hidden" <address@hidden>

finaly came through...


Anyhow Cheers,
                    -Tristan

/me learns something new every day ;-)