Dropping support of Makefile.simple

[lcn2]

TL;DL

Any objections if we no longer ship Makefile.simple in future calc releases?

The details

It appears that using conditional statements in Makefile, such as:

ifeq (...)
...
else
...
endif

See Conditional Syntax for more examples.

Support of conditional syntax become fairly common in make(1) utilities, and seem to have been widely supported for quite some time. Way back when calc was first written, and even in the 1990's, this wasn't the case.

We are thinking about dropping support of releasing Makefile.simple in the next release of calc. Building them has always been an awkward. Supporting them and testing them is time consuming and problematic. Removing the support to build them would simply the Makefile.

This would require that one use a make tool that supports conditional statements in order to compile calc.

Any objections to dropping the support of Makefile.simple in future releases of calc?

[lcn2]

We make note of comment 1676447616 that is in support of dropping the Makefile.simple files.

[lcn2]

Calc version 2.14.3.0 was the last release to ship with Makefile.simple. Going forward, a make tool that supports Conditional syntax will be required to compile calc.