From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 1 10:45:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C8937B401 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g51HjE6r058583 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:45:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 11:45:15 -0600 Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) From: Ian To: freebsd-hackers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020601015343.GA1132@lizzy.catnook.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 05/31/02 19:53, Jos Backus wrote: > Fyi: it appears nobody is really interested in having BSD make and GNU make > converge a little, so I am not going waste any more time on this. Actually, I think it's a great idea. It should make life much easier for people creating and maintaining ports. The tone of Terry's reply to your mail seemed to be "My opinion is the only one that counts here and I disagree with you." My advice would be to not mistake the sheer volume of Terry's constant bitching at anyone trying to do real productive work with anything FreeBSD-policy-like. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message