From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 26 21:26:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08906 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08885 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:26:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA15514 for committers@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:36:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199806270436.OAA15514@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Changes to make (not) To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:36:09 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Please avoid making changes to make(1) sources that rely on functions that aren't commonly available in other versions of UNIX. The recent changes that involve asprintf() mean that I can't do a bootstrap build of the FreeBSD sources using NetBSD/Alpha. This is not so much a problem to me now that I don't rely on doing that, but there are some who _are_. To see how compatible the make sources are with another Unix, I tried the Makefile.dist on OSF/1 V3.2 today and I find that several unresolved references (asprintf, snprintf, errx, ...). I think we should keep the code for the basic build tools (like make) portable. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message