From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 1 11:15:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (adsl-66.218.45.239.dslextreme.com [66.218.45.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C7FD37B400 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 13785 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jun 2002 18:15:29 -0000 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:15:07 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) Message-ID: <20020601181529.GD13397@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers References: <20020601015343.GA1132@lizzy.catnook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:45:15AM -0600, Ian wrote: > Actually, I think it's a great idea. It should make life much easier for > people creating and maintaining ports. My thoughts exactly. > The tone of Terry's reply to your mail seemed to be "My opinion is the only > one that counts here and I disagree with you." My advice would be to not > mistake the sheer volume of Terry's constant bitching at anyone trying to do > real productive work with anything FreeBSD-policy-like. Thanks, will do :-) Any if anybody with make clue wants to review the OP make patch I posted, that would be appreciated. The patch is available at: http://www.catnook.com/patches/op-make.patch -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos@catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message