From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 31 10: 7:30 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 20E6737B40A for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 10:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 97170 invoked by uid 1000); 31 May 2002 17:07:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:07:24 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) Message-ID: <20020531170746.GA93242@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20020531024250.GA90997@lizzy.catnook.com> <3CF73679.A5AB7886@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CF73679.A5AB7886@mindspring.com> 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 Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:38:17AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > The biggest problem with GNU make that I've seen is re-expansion > of variable variables. > > The suggested fix doesn't address that, so it won't fix the most > common "compatability problem". So what? It fixes (in a backward-compatible way because ``$^'' isn't used in BSD make) one incompatibility without which I have to have two different Makefiles in the simple case I am thinking about. It's at least an incremental improvement that doesn't break anything afaIcs. -- 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