From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 12:18:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC36C37B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DEA43E77; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0057.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.57] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186cpC-0000Z6-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:18:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBEECE2.866CAA6D@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:17:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juli Mallett Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make(1) broken! References: <20021029041633.A96819@FreeBSD.org> <90384.1035896204@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021029050854.A903@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Poul-Henning Kamp [ Data: 2002-10-29 ] > > Having a set of regression tests for make under src/tools/regression > > would be really cool as well. > > I agree with you 100%. It'd be nice if people with esoteric-but-valid > build systems using our make(1) could submit some edge cases to make > up said tests. I've got a few simple ones, none of which test much on > the "real world behaviour relied upon" side. Where's the full specification for "make", so that we can deduce the edge cases? The standard *can't* be the code, or any change that is made, no matter how stupid, becomes the standard. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message