Re: superfluous GNUism in the makefile

   Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:01 +0700
   From: Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>

   It's fine to remove $< from the c/srfi-27.o rule, but doing so
   didn't add portability to the Makefile.in as a whole, while
   trying to achieve such portability will ruin the --srcdir=
   support.  Which is, in my opinion, to high price to pay.

Wait -- is that even supposed to work now?  I tried it in five
different versions -- 0.36, 0.46, 0.57, 1.3, and 1.8 -- and it failed
in every one.  In 1.8 and 1.3, it failed in the rule for scheme48vm,
not having created all the necessary object files to link scheme48vm;
in 0.57 and 0.46, it failed trying to create c/unix/misc.o, perhaps
because c/unix in the build directory didn't exist.  0.36 came closest
to working: it needed -I.  in CFLAGS and ./$(VM) rather than $(VM) to
execute the new virtual machine, both of which changes have been made
in the makefile in later versions.

If it has never worked, how much of a price is this?

What I ran, by the way, was, in an empty directory,

/path/to/scheme48-X.Y/configure --srcdir=/path/to/scheme48-X.Y
make