Makefile discussion?

[davidjoffe]

I'm not sure but there may be potentially much to discuss about the Makefile in future so here's a place to add comments/questions/thoughts (or reported platform issues or conflicts etc.) on it.

I don't know if the current Makefile (with maybe minor modifications) should be 'good enough for most purposes for most platforms' with maybe changes (e.g. maybe better use of calling sdl2-config and just using hardcoded paths as fallback if sdl2-config not present) .. or if in the long run we're going to have many issues. It probably works OK for most Linux distros (and Mac) for now. (But I don't always know exactly what issues or difficulties port maintainers run into .. so maybe report here if you created a port and had this or that specific difficulty or conflicts or something with the Makefile, or had to add this or that)

The Makefile was created in 1998 in the days before more 'modern' tools like autoconf or cmake. It's a very simple project with very simple short list of dependencies so for now seems to be sufficient for most purposes.