Re:In .NET, open source does not beget open source
by Someone on Monday January 09, 2012 @03:37PM
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"Makefiles usually work"
1. _usually_: if you have the same system, yes. However, try building stuff on a different OS (say SunOS) and/or CPU, and that 'usually' becomes 'more often than not', at best.
2. Have you read such makefiles recently? Portable ones, especially, are not ones one writes in an afternoon (not even when using a meta- or meta-meta makefile).
1. _usually_: if you have the same system, yes. However, try building stuff on a different OS (say SunOS) and/or CPU, and that 'usually' becomes 'more often than not', at best.
2. Have you read such makefiles recently? Portable ones, especially, are not ones one writes in an afternoon (not even when using a meta- or meta-meta makefile).