Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello James,

Thanks for trying it.

Yes, 'supersede' -- I must have had cedere in mind.

I don't really know about writing portable makefiles.
I don't have any 'if' statements in mine -- are you referring
to the 'include' statements?  The other places for problems are
special variables like $< etc, builtin variables like $(MAKE),
and which shell is invoked.  I don't use makefiles myself, I
use a makefile generator using M4 of my own devising, and this
expands everything except include (needed to include generated
dependency rules). BSD used to use 'makedepend' which altered
the makefile itself, and some people including myself regard this
as a criminal act.

Any suggestions?

regards, Denis

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:23:17 -0400
"James K. Lowden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/
> 
> Hi Denis, 
> 
> There's a tiny error in the readme:
> 
> > It was written as a troff 'LaTeX' to supercede some other macro
> 
> You want "supersede".  It's easier to remember from the Latin: sedere,
> to sit (as in sedate), not cedere, to yield.  To supersede is to sit
> above.  :-)
> 
> I admire your handcrafted Makefile.  I played with it for a little
> while to see if it could be made portable to BSD make.  Sadly the
> answer is no because there's nothing like a preprocessor for make,
> something that could conditionally execute based on the executor.  BSD
> make uses ".if"; GNU uses "if".  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl
> 


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