From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 23:33:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AC916A50F; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:33:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE73843D78; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:33:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id B76DB5CAA1; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:33:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Harti Brandt Message-ID: <20050511233337.GO10218@elvis.mu.org> References: <200505100806.j4A86Edq046232@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050510210440.GT51193@elvis.mu.org> <20050511082609.B2955@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050511082609.B2955@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make main.c var.c var.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:33:38 -0000 * Harti Brandt [050510 23:31] wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > AP>What about a flag/variable that if set enables "full POSIX mode"? > > Make is expected to be POSIX if the first non-empty line in the Makefile > looks like: > > .POSIX: > > , the Makefile is syntactically correct (with regard to the description in > Posix, not make(1)) and if it doesn't use any \.[A-Z]+ target names > besides those in the standard. So, except for the command line parsing, > it is possible to get POSIX behaviour (it doesn't work yet though, but > we're working on it). With regard to a flag/variable I would like, at some > point, to re-start the discussion about making a Posix option available > for all Posix-tools in some common way (ls, ...). Make would then be just > one of them. That sounds cool. One could also have a pmake or something installed so checking argv[0] would give the behavior desired. -- - Alfred Perlstein - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684