32 | | Another thing I realized (once again) working on kLIBC and GCC was that makefiles usually ends up depending on external tools other than just the compiler, linker and librarian. I've lost count on how many times I've had to help figuring out weird build breaks which was caused by a different shell, an innocent environment variable, different sed or gawk, a broken td, or similar stupid things. And this was just on one single platform with kind of low activity. Now thing going for crossplatform... So, a cross platform framework must try provide similar behavior on all platforms. The simplest way of doing that is naturally to provide all the tool it uses, and do the necessary changes to force them to behave correctly. |
| 32 | Another thing I realized (once again) working on kLIBC and GCC was that makefiles usually ends up depending on external tools other than just the compiler, linker and librarian. I've lost count on how many times I've had to help figuring out weird build breaks which was caused by a different shell, an innocent environment variable, different sed or gawk, a broken tr, or similar stupid things. And this was just on one single platform with kind of low activity. Now thing going for crossplatform... So, a cross platform framework must try provide similar behavior on all platforms. The simplest way of doing that is naturally to provide all the tool it uses, and do the necessary changes to force them to behave correctly. |