Re: [PATCH] config.mak.dev: fix typo when enabling -Wpedantic

> > But why does make complain here only sometimes? Does it depend on the
> > version of make?
> 
> It seems to depend on the version of make you're using. On my system,
> 'make' is GNU Make 4.4.90, which has the more restrictive checks around
> the recipe prefix in nested conditionals.
> 
> With that version (and the pre-image of this commit), I get:
> 
>     $ make -v | head -1 && make DEVELOPER=1 2>&1 | head -1
>     GNU Make 4.4.90
>     config.mak.dev:13: extraneous text after 'ifneq' directive
> 
> , but with /usr/bin/make (which on my machine is GNU Make 4.3), I
> instead get:
> 
>     $ /usr/bin/make -v | head -1 && /usr/bin/make DEVELOPER=1 2>&1 | head -1
>     GNU Make 4.3
>     GIT_VERSION = 2.45.2.746.g06e570c0df

> On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 11:15:43AM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > It is tempting to just want to rip out support for older compilers, but
> > given that ebd2e4a13a (Makefile: restrict -Wpedantic and
> > -Wno-pedantic-ms-format better, 2021-09-28) is only three years old, I
> > imagine that some builders may still want support for older / pre-GCC 4
> > compilers.
> 
> Hmm... thinking on it more, edb2e4a13a hasn't been working at all on the
> older versions of Make that people with ancient compilers are likely
> also using. So it's possible that that commit isn't doing as much as we
> think, in which case we could rip it out altogether.