From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 1 13:48: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E50737BAAD for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA60734; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:47:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA85903; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:47:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008012047.OAA85903@harmony.village.org> To: Marc Espie Subject: Re: Pointer to people `in charge' of FreeBSD make ? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:42:16 +0200." <20000801164216.A14226@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> References: <20000801164216.A14226@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:47:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000801164216.A14226@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> Marc Espie writes: : I'm currently over-hauling OpenBSD make. Yippie. The *BSD makes have drifted badly and are all in need of some cleanup, some moer so than others. I think it would be in everybody's best interest to figure out some way to merge the source bases. I'll be happy to work with people on doin gthi.s : During my investigations, I've stumbled upon an oddity of the way : VPATH works. Eeek. I'm going to run in terror now :-) I never know if teh dark corners of VPATH are intentional, or just an artifact of a sloppy implenentation. : Currently, what I'm interested in is collaboration: this changes the : semantics of make slightly, in a non-obvious way. If OpenBSD : performs the change in a dark corner, we'll be able to accept : Makefiles that other BSD* may complain about. Spewing a `warning, : non standard feature used' is always possible, but it would be : better if we could agree on a common plan... Agreed. I've been working on pulling in the NetBSD and OpenBSD changes to make(1) as I run into problems, but the project would take far more time than I have right now :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message