Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:21:06 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program Message-ID: <20121026172106.BA86458094@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <37989A40-4DBD-48C8-BD65-16C7C41454B6@bsdimp.com> References: <201210020750.23358.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAGH67wTM1VDrpu7rS=VE1G_kVEOHhS4-OCy5FX_6eDGmiNTA8A@mail.gmail.com> <201210021037.27762.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAGH67wQffjVHqFw_eN=mfeg-Ac2Z6XBT5Hv72ev0kjjx7YH7SA@mail.gmail.com> <127FA63D-8EEE-4616-AE1E-C39469DDCC6A@xcllnt.net> <20121025211522.GA32636@dragon.NUXI.org> <3F52B7C9-A7B7-4E0E-87D0-1E67FE5D0BA7@xcllnt.net> <CAGH67wRw_n2_KwVz=DZkMpeJ4t8mMf965nxehHsDV-mzTnn5cA@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo839EUTF9bP8VD3L1_boY8i-w8B87yHGRR7Zx6wONFnSnEQ@mail.gmail.com> <20121025225353.86DA658094@chaos.jnpr.net> <20121026050130.GL35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20121026062356.3143A58094@chaos.jnpr.net> <37989A40-4DBD-48C8-BD65-16C7C41454B6@bsdimp.com>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:27:06 -0600, Warner Losh writes:
>And we've had the :U and :L for a similar period of time as well. =
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply age has anything to do with it.
The doc I refered to makes it clear that the two sets of conflicting
modifers were introduced at about the same time.
>Why can't there be a make target that turns them on in FreeBSD compat =
>mode. You could then just drop those into bsd.port.mk and be done with =
Because then you would lose the functionality that the alternative
modifiers provide. Imagine throwing away the ability in /bin/sh to do
${foo:-bar}
Also it would perpetuate the divergence in syntax for little reason.
BTW there are currently < 300 makefiles in ports/ affected by the
transition to bmake, and there were an even smaller number in src/.
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