Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:20:10 GMT From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly Message-ID: <201102250220.p1P2KA9Y089452@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/155000; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org,
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:13:09 +1100 (EST)
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 02/24/11 14:35, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is this relevant? POSIX says that the Right Way to demand POSIX mode is
> to put .POSIX on the first non-comment line of the Makefile; our %POSIX
> variable is a red herring as far as POSIX is concerned.
It allows A Way.
Of course you should fix make(1) to support the POSIX way if this is
not too hard. If make can see .POSIX before including sys.mk, then
it could alternatively include a POSIX-sys.mk instead. This would be
cleaner than the ifdefs in sys.mk, and would inhibit breakage of the
POSIX case by putting things like CTF in its rules.
Bruce
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