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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:32:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Alexander Langer <alex@manta.mayn.de>, libh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1 var.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.10.10010111430380.14841-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9753.971234382@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:50:34PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
> > > >     usr.bin/make         make.1 var.c 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Add :L and :U variable modifiers.  These convert the variable's value t
> o
> > > >   all-lower or all-upper case characters, respectively.  These were added
> > > >   to further reduce differences between NetBSD/OpenBSD and FreeBSD make(1
> )
> > > >   to propagate OpenPackages.
> > > 
> > > Speaking of OpenPackages - what are we going to do with libh?
> 
> I don't think that OpenPackages addresses anything in particular at
> the moment except an attempt to merge the existing ports mechanisms in
> *BSD.  This can be considered rather separate from any efforts to
> create new ports/packages mechanisms.

I would agree.  I assume if this does work that things could be done to make
this system work on all the other BSDs.  So eventually it would become part
of OpenPackages... at least in theory.

-- 
Trenton Schulz
twschulz@cord.edu



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