From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 2 19: 7:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E8237B400 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5327Gm1012478; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:07:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200206030207.g5327Gm1012478@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Terry Lambert , jos@catnook.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:48:34 EDT." <3CFAAED2.F98FD7B4@bellatlantic.net> X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.92; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:07:16 -0600 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 >>>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Babkin writes: Sergey> I would really like all the existing make branches (BSD, Sergey> GNU, SVR4) converge to a single syntax. Otherwise it's too Sergey> much pain, and the only workaround is either to use only the Sergey> classic V7 make features or write makefiles for gmake since Sergey> it's readily available on all the platforms. Fine. We all adopt the Plan 9 mk and make Presotto the gatekeeper of any further "enhancements." --lyndon (who doesn't understand why this is an issue, after having just converted a *whole* lot of source to work with POSIX make. Standards? Who gives a f*** (I guess ...)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message