Specify Make Version about makefiletutorial HOT 4 CLOSED

Ah thanks! It looks like the changelist for each version is listed here http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=make (each version has to be downloaded and the NEWS file has the changelist).

From some brief searching, the changes from 3.81 -> 3.82 seem to be the main backwards incompatibility changes.

I had thought all of these worked for Make 4.1+, do you remember the ones that seemed to rely on v3.x?

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It looks like the changelist for each version is listed here http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=make (each version has to be downloaded and the NEWS file has the changelist).

That link might be worth adding to the tutorial.

I had thought all of these worked for Make 4.1+, do you remember the ones that seemed to rely on v3.x?

No I haven't tried them all of them out. But from a practical experience, when cloning a repository that uses Make, it will be either using Make 3 or Make 4, so I keep on my machine the latest version available of both major versions.

I'm not sure why some projects are still using Make 3, i.e. whether it's because they don't want to migrate to v4 just because the benefits are not worth the effort, or because the majority of the projects in the wild are still using Make 3, or whatever other reason. But I personally think that it would be nice if the tutorial mentioned the fact that presently both versions are still widely used, explaining the historical reasons, etc., thus preparing the reader for real life scenarios.

For some reason, most Make tutorials I've come across don't mention the Make version they were written for. I guess that some of them were written before Make 4 was released, so they didn't deem it necessary to make the distinction, while Make 4 tutorials might be giving for granted that the reader will be using the latest version.

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Awesome I appreciate the thorough response. I'll think about what to do here

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Fixed in dcfb44a

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