Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:04:51 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r236338 - head/usr.bin/make Message-ID: <20120531060451.B91AC5807B@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <20120531024557.GA3609@neutralgood.org> References: <201205302223.q4UMN95p083678@svn.freebsd.org> <20120531024557.GA3609@neutralgood.org>
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Hi Kevin, On Wed, 30 May 2012 22:45:57 -0400, "Kevin P. Neal" writes: >> Deprecate the FreeBSD make's ":U" (to-upper case) and ":L" (to-lower case) >> modifiers for ":tu" and ":tl" from OSF's ODE, which made its way into >> NetBSD's make, which is the source for the Portable Berkeley Make. > >This is an incorrect history. I'm the source of NetBSD make's ":tu" and ":tl" >modifiers. The closest I've ever come to OSF ODE is reading about it a little >in NetBSD make's man page. Yes, you are right, :t* were not from ODE. I think David was refering to the :L and :U modifiers that (as you noted) I added to NetBSD make along with :D, :P, and :@, that all originated in ODE. This patch adds :tu and :tl as aliases for freebsd's :U and :L, so that makefiles at least can start to converge. --sjg
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