From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:50:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4397.1310165406@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> of "Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:07:04 +0200." <87k4bsfmuv.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> > Most Linux systems I know of have a description of what distro is
> > installed in the /etc/issue file: Ubuntu, Debian, RH, Fedora, SuSE
> [...]
>
> True, but it's not reliable since it is quite common to customize the
> login message. And the next thing of course is that you don't have that
> file at all on Windows, where the Makefile should also work.
>
> I the dark ages when different makes ruled, it was common to have
> Makefile.vms Makefile.SysV or something like that. Maybe something
> along those lines plus some notes in README or an additonal INSTALL
> would be more appropriate?
>
I'm actually hoping that nothing of the sort will be needed, but given
that I don't have either debian squeeze or slackware available, I can't
really see what goes wrong.
As for /etc/issue, you are probably right: I never touch it but that
means nothing. OTOH, it does illustrate how to make Makefiles do stupid
pet tricks.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 1:11 patch org-mode Makefile - solve a couple debian build problems and a slackware build problem Jude DaShiell
2011-07-07 14:42 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 7:33 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-08 8:21 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 9:10 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-08 9:29 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 10:08 ` Andrea Crotti
2011-07-08 22:07 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-08 22:50 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-07-09 6:26 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-09 8:38 ` Bastien
2011-07-09 16:00 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-09 16:40 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-09 20:45 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 1:40 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-10 1:44 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-10 8:16 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 7:24 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-10 8:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-07-10 8:40 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-08 10:34 ` Jambunathan K
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