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Re:How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build by coldtea on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:58AM (#14002859)
>There's no way you can do what autotools does in a Makefile without implementing half of autotools yourself.

That's part of the argument: with standards compliant code, you don't need to do "what autotools does".

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Re:How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build by zuzun on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:30AM (#14004780)
ENOTSUP is part of the standard and I do have autotools macros checking if some function calls produce that error value on the host system.
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