Re: Compiling lout 3.38 on Windows with mingw+msys

[Hugh Sasse]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> There ought to be a way to set $(SUFEXE) automatically depending
> on the value of OSUNIX etc.  Is there some standard out there
> which is used for saying which OS you are on?  I can't find a
> variable for it anywhere in the GNU make documentation.

I've looked though my copy of "Managing Projects with Gnu Make"
Robert Mecklenburg, O'Reilly,  and can't find anything either.  Normally
this sort of thing is dealt with by configure in the GNU world,
so autoconf docs may be more instructive.  Probably autotools now.
That book says that you can use automake to make your makefiles more
portable, but I find it difficult to keep up with this side of GNU
developments, to be honest.

        Hugh