0005556: Share more between Unix and Windows makefiles

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(0007187) xleroy (administrator) 2012-03-27 10:41	This is not a problem report per se, and I feel that using the bug tracker this way diminishes its efficiency, making it harder to spot the real problem reports. As to the Makefiles: yes, they could be refactored, but 1- it's boring work with high breakage potential, and 2- to do a good job at it, we'd need to switch all makefiles to GNU make (instead of hacking around the limitations of POSIX make), a move that I'd welcome but that some other developers oppose.

(0007194) frisch (developer) 2012-03-27 12:47	> As to the Makefiles: yes, they could be refactored, but 1- it's boring work with high breakage potential, and 2- to do a good job at it, we'd need to switch all makefiles to GNU make (instead of hacking around the limitations of POSIX make), a move that I'd welcome but that some other developers oppose. I'm not proposing to completely merge Makefiles, just to factorize common code, as already done e.g. in stdlib, byterun, otherlibs. I don't think we need to switch to GNU make to do that.

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