From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:42:11 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo --> X and NeWS ] In-Reply-To: References: <201709121535.v8CFZOuB015695@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170913022333.GD24549@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On TOPS-10, "make love" says "Not WAR?" - but unlike UNIX make, it invokes TECO ;) .MAKE LOVE not WAR? *ITHIS IS A TEST $$ *HT$$ THIS IS A TEST * On 9/14/2017 11:16 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote: > >> Oh, I nearly wept when I read this. Building a typical project >> nowadays is so painful -- the makefile works on one particular Linux >> distro and woe betide the rest. > > Ah, well I remember when "make" was first introduced (in PWB?); I thought > it was Christmas... > > Now, even it has to be modified for various platforms. > > Trivia: what does "make love" say on your system?  My Mac boringly > says "make: *** No rule to make target `love'.  Stop." and the FreeBSD > box isn't much better: "make: don't know how to make love. Stop".  I > don't know what my Penguin laptop says because it's currently switched > off. > > Sigh... >