From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 2 19:14:59 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 0F73937B406 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14364 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jun 2002 02:15:17 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:14:55 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: Sergey Babkin , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) Message-ID: <20020603021517.GA11452@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: Lyndon Nerenberg , Sergey Babkin , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3CFAAED2.F98FD7B4@bellatlantic.net> <200206030207.g5327Gm1012478@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206030207.g5327Gm1012478@orthanc.ab.ca> 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 Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:07:16PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > --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 ...)) I just checked the Open Group make definition and I can't find either $^ or $>. So if we want to be truly standards-compliant perhaps we should remove support for $> :-) -- 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