elixir-lang
gmake vs make ✨🤕
So #37 made me think. The majority of Elixir projects will write Makefile for GNU make, so developers expects that elixir_make will always use it.
That PR added netbsd, but there's also solaris, smartos, dragonfly, …. How can we find a way to ensure we'll use gmake consistently ?
Could we just call gmake if :os.type() isn't {:unix, :linux} ? I can't really think of any other unices that bundles gnu make as a default.
In practice, except if you're running HURD, every non-linux UNIX runs their own flavour of non-GNU make.
Has this caused actual problems that we are aware of? I want to make sure we're not spending time designing a super generic solution when no one actually ran into anything bad related to this, you know 😄
Hi @whatyouhide! Issues were raised while testing a software called Pleroma written in Elixir, on different Unices.
The goal is not to spend time designing a super generic solution, but to actively promote the use of the gmake executable by default on all non-Linux Unices. A generic solution would account for every flavours of Make in the Unix world. The solution that is proposed is to specialise rather than generalise.
I'm not super familiar with all the Make stuff (😅) so I'm good with making gmake default on all non-Linux Unix systems. Could you send a PR @Kleidukos? :)
A PR for using gmake in other Unices is welcome if you still believe ti is a useful change. Closing this for now!
