Portable Makefiles for Static Linkage: using babel-config

In this section we look back at the makefile so far and realize there's an awful lot of compiler and platform specfic details in our minimalist makefiles. While simple is good, nonportable is often bad enough to tread into difficult waters.

Since Babelized software must be built the same way that Babel itself was configured, it seems reasonable to lean on babel-config quite heavily. By now you are probably wondering how many secrets babel-config holds and can provide on request. The simplest way to find out is to ask it. (Though you may get a slightly different result than what is shown here depending on the version of Babel.)

% babel-config -dump-vars | wc -l
120





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