Use of Makefile

[Derek Atkins]

Billy SG McCarthy <reshippie at yahoo.com> writes:

> 2 instances I can think of.  One is when your version
> of make will only find 'Makefile' and not 'makefile'
> and you don't feel like renameing it.  Another,
> probably more sensible situation is would be for
> having a single tarball with makefiles for multiple
> distros or OSes.  Makefile.debian, Makefile.RedHat,
> Makefile.Netbsd...

But at this point you might as well just use a configure script.

-derek

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