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[47.72.82.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id bf3sm11750441pjb.16.2021.05.10.09.33.09 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 10 May 2021 09:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Use standard features (IMPORTANT: default prefix changed) To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" References: <20210509213930.94120-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> <20210509213930.94120-33-alx.manpages@gmail.com> <9f4a8c0c-ced3-4192-05a0-d126afda3285@gmail.com> <745152cf-d533-d090-d3ad-273e5de22ae6@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <17aa6586-53a7-bd49-9732-1a12eb9e7917@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 04:33:07 +1200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <745152cf-d533-d090-d3ad-273e5de22ae6@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Alex, On 5/10/21 7:13 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 5/10/21 1:39 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> - Specify shebang >> >> Why? It's not quite obvious to me, and the commit message >> should really explain... > > Hmmm. I have some minor reasons to add it, but not a really good one. > > * Some editors don't recognize 'Makefile' as a special name, so the > shebang helps detecting which language the file is using (e.g., for > coloring). > > * I tend to subdivide a big Makefile into a small Makefile and many > submakefiles stored in <./libexec/>. Those obviously need different > names, and given that the makefile extension is not very standard (I use > .mk), having a shebang helps knowing what the file is. After that, I > also have it on the main Makefile for consistency. But here we only > have one Makefile, so it doesn apply very much. I think I'll remove it. It is kind of idiosyncratic, leaves the reader asking "why?". Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/