From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 1:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from netcetera.ch (netcetera-139.netcetera.ch [193.192.248.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29C637B4EC for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@netcetera.ch) Received: from disco.netcetera.ch (disco [193.192.248.144]) by (8.9.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13432; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:40:10 +0100 (MET) From: Jason Brazile Received: by disco.netcetera.ch (8.9.3) id KAA03413; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:40:09 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:40:09 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200102220940.KAA03413@disco.netcetera.ch> To: K.J.Koster@kpn.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: make bug? (dependency names with '$') Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kees Jan wrote: > Jason Brazile wrote: > > This bug does not occur with NetBSD make. I spent a couple of hours > > diffing the sources (there are a lot more differences than I expected) > > There was some talk on the OpenPackages list about differences in the makes > of the three BSD's. I've only followed the discussion with half an eye, but > it would be nice for them too to see the makes converge, or at least iron > out differences here and there. > > http://openpackages.org/pipermail/op-tech/ Thanks for the pointer. That is a very interesting site. For those who haven't heard of it, it is an effort to unify the various BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, Darwin) 3rd party software packaging so that all BSDs can use the same system. As a side effect of their wanting to remove effort duplication, they are trying to also unify the various flavors of BSD make. Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Brazile jason.brazile@netcetera.ch Netcetera AG, 8040 Zuerich phone +41 1 247 70 70 fax +41 1 247 70 75 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message