Re: problem building build package from cvs

Stephen> Portable Makefiles are annoying. PB> we could do an os check for FreeBSD and set them that way yes PB> ?? Stephen> You could do that with the variables but you can't get rid of the Stephen> dependency on GNU make that easily. Stephen> It might be preferable to do it autoconf style, and automatically Stephen> create the Local.rules that way, rather than burden the Makefile. thats something im not good at (yet) so i may need some help with that prolly comes from using interpreted languages too much Stephen> Note that doing on-the-fly checks in XEmacs.rules or Local.rules can Stephen> be extremely expensive because those files get included in every Stephen> recursive make, and there are a _lot_ of them in a make World. that would get annoying :( and slow i would imagine -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver＠xemacs.org>