Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:36:25 +0100 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new makefile for fbcon |
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On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:08:24PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > > Here is a patch against 2.3.27 for drivers/video/Makefile and > drivers/video/fbmon.c which will contain future code for handling > different types of monitors. This is so you can do things like set 800x600 > mode on fix frequency monitors. Thank you. >
Nice, but... Too many GNU-isms. GNU make is not half as good as many people believe, so you won't gain overly much by using it's specialities.
Better to stick to the POSIX behaviour since this is not to change in between versions of make and allows people to use alternatives like pmake (which is better suited to distributed build environments btw.!)
Yours, Dominik Kubla
PS. I am well aware that the current kernel makefiles rely on GNUisms, but there is work being done (by myself and others) to present patches that allow the use of _ANY_ POSIX-compatible make utility being used.
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