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coldtea on March 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your ...

>There's no way you can do what autotools does in a Makefile without implementing half of autotools yourself.

That's part of the argument: with standards compliant code, you don't need to do "what autotools does".

zuzun on March 31, 2017 [–]

ENOTSUP is part of the standard and I do have autotools macros checking if some function calls produce that error value on the host system.

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