From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 8 19: 7:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21ECF37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5927TJn042064; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5927TDR042063; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:07:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jos Backus Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) Message-ID: <20020608190729.C40584@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20020531024250.GA90997@lizzy.catnook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020531024250.GA90997@lizzy.catnook.com>; from jos@catnook.com on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > The GNU make info file says: > > `$^' > The names of all the prerequisites, with spaces between them. For > prerequisites which are archive members, only the member named is > used (*note Archives::). A target has only one prerequisite on > each other file it depends on, no matter how many times each file > is listed as a prerequisite. So if you list a prerequisite more > than once for a target, the value of `$^' contains just one copy > of the name. I tried to add support for this a while back, but never got it working right. Nor did Will who worked on our make file a while. I'll have to see if your patch does everything $^ should do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message