Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:35:30 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly Message-ID: <20110225093104.W1474@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20110224112657.38420.qmail@xps.daemonology.net> References: <20110224112657.38420.qmail@xps.daemonology.net>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Colin Percival wrote: >> Description: > > make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly. It sucks in sys.mk before it > reads the Makefile, and sys.mk has several instances of > .if defined(%POSIX) > to switch between POSIX and non-POSIX mode; because sys.mk is processed > first, there is no opportunity for a .POSIX: directive to take effect. > >> How-To-Repeat: > $ echo .POSIX: > Makefile > $ make -V CC > (prints "cc"; it should print "c89".) Except that there is the opportunity to set %POSIX using make -D. This might be enough in practice. The namespace pollution avoidance is too perfect -- there seems to be no way to set %POSIX or .POSIX in the environment. Bruce
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