From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 11 01:23:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03029 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 01:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03017; Mon, 11 May 1998 01:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous215.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.215]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01300; Mon, 11 May 1998 07:06:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.8.8) id WAA02365; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:32:48 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from wosch) Message-ID: <19980510223247.09270@panke.de> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:32:47 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 References: <199805101957.MAA23051@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199805101957.MAA23051@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:57:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1998-05-10 12:57:25 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed *grumble* Our make is broken, period! Why did you closed the PR? Please fix the bugs or reopen the PR again! > State-Changed-By: phk > State-Changed-When: Sun May 10 12:56:00 PDT 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > what made you think that it should support all of that stuff ? Not all, but some like gmake(1) does. > make only supports some of the primitives to gain some speed, > it has never promised to replace your shell entirely. The meta character optimization is an undocumented (mis-)feature. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message