From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 2 22:39:31 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 4999837B400 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 63473 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jun 2002 05:39:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:39:25 -0700 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: <20020603053947.GJ11452@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: Lyndon Nerenberg , Sergey Babkin , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020603024004.GC11452@lizzy.catnook.com> <200206030528.g535Snm1029630@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206030528.g535Snm1029630@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 11:28:49PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Jos" == Jos Backus writes: > > Jos> My proposal for adding $^ as an alias for $> does not add any > Jos> incompatibilities, neither with POSIX nor with any existing BSD > Jos> make. > > Yes, and no. Adding new features doesn't break existing code, but it > encourages new code to use the new features in a non-compatible way. The > import of tcsh on top of csh is a classic of this. What we have > works. It's not cool and/or sexy. But it works. If you *need* the > features of GNUmake, use GNUmake. Sigh. BSD make and GNU make already _share_ this same feature, it's just that they _name_ it differently: $> v.s. $^. If POSIX would only adopt one (or both) we could follow their lead and be done with it. But that's not going to happen any time soon. > --lyndon -- 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