Re: Feature idea: required version flag

[Stephan Beal]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM, John Dill <address@hidden> wrote:
> My particular solution is to have an include file that implements some
> variables for use in my makefile.  This is an excerpt from my make function
> library.

<big snip>

Great! i'm gonna steal that. :)

But let's consider:

a) this must be updated on each new version of make (admittedly not very often)
b) it's MUCH more verbose than, e.g. -X=3.81 or --minimum-make-version=3.81


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