From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 13:15:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF371672 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from papowell@astart.com) Received: from astart2.astart.com (99-111-96-109.uvs.sndgca.sbcglobal.net [99.111.96.109]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764408FC0A for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop_83.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astart2.astart.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9QD2Abv023505 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papowell@astart.com) Message-ID: <508A89D2.807@astart.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:02:10 -0700 From: Patrick Powell Organization: Astart Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120807 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program References: <201210020750.23358.jhb@freebsd.org> <201210021037.27762.jhb@freebsd.org> <127FA63D-8EEE-4616-AE1E-C39469DDCC6A@xcllnt.net> <20121025211522.GA32636@dragon.NUXI.org> <3F52B7C9-A7B7-4E0E-87D0-1E67FE5D0BA7@xcllnt.net> <20121025225353.86DA658094@chaos.jnpr.net> <20121026050130.GL35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20121026062356.3143A58094@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <20121026062356.3143A58094@chaos.jnpr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: papowell@astart.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:15:59 -0000 On 10/25/12 23:23, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: >> In particular, why cannot the ':L' and ':U' support be added ? > Because they already exist - with different meanings. > They were added to NetBSD make over 10 years ago, from the OSF version > of pmake. > > In several areas the behavior of bmake has been changed to make it a > drop in replacement for FreeBSD, but the above (not used at all in the > FreeBSD base) are easier dealt with the other way. The :tl and :tu > equivalents were added to FreeBSD make a while back to ease the > transition. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > At the risk of getting a ton of email telling me what an idiot I am, why not add a command line flag OR a make variable/value to set this behavior? You could put the flag/option in the /etc/make.conf file... and once you get all of the make files fixed up you could take it out... -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies papowell@astart.com 1530 Jamacha Road, Suite X, Network and System El Cajon, CA 92019 Consulting 858-874-6543 Web Site: www.astart.com