From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 05:54:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37F9106566B; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4694C8FC17; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-20-82.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.20.82]) by mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m265sYXM031531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:54:39 +1100 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m265sXw7067879; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:54:33 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m265sVjN067878; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:54:31 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:54:31 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20080306055431.GV68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20080303.224256.635730757.imp@bsdimp.com> <200803041701.36466.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080303.235128.41690803.imp@bsdimp.com> <47CEFCA0.1060600@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47CEFCA0.1060600@chuckr.org> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:54:53 -0000 --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:03:44PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >I bet a very large portion of those among us who are professional codes >have had been forced at some time to port our make, whether it was the >original pmake, or the up-to-date version (I did the most up to date I >could manage. I looked at porting pmake to Tru64 about 9 years ago and rapidly decided I couldn't justify the effort (I only wanted to port a couple of FreeBSD utilities) and re-wrote the relevant Makefiles. I applaud Warner's efforts here as increasing the portability of FreeBSD utilities is very worthwhile. >The politicians amongst us will kill it, which I'm very osrry to predict I hope not. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHz4cX/opHv/APuIcRAvl7AJsGviWoyeaYOxt6CwSGxwAVEcH2GACfWLIq kV6FoWsU24q8l6NiW+Bvxqc= =jkRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr--