From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 4 5:44:36 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 05:44:34 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk (gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk [193.115.214.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762CC37B402 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.inpharmatica.co.uk (euston.inpharmatica.co.uk [193.115.214.6]) by gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28323; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:44:25 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk) Received: from w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk (root@w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk [192.168.122.87]) by mailhost.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f04DiNr42869; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:44:24 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk) Received: from inpharmatica.co.uk (matthew@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04459; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:44:23 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk: Host matthew@localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be inpharmatica.co.uk Sender: m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk Message-ID: <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:44:23 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-desktop i586) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Chris BeHanna , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE? References: <200012260828.eBQ8SFF09546@gratis.grondar.za> <20001226231547.R72273@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > Not that I'm a fan of the GPL, but wouldn't importation of gmake > > into the toolchain that gets installed by default help this problem > > along enormously? > > What can it do that bmake can't? > Automatically generate dependencies and then apply them as part of a higher level target all in the same `make' invocation? ie. `make depend' can be a sub-target of `make all'. That's about the only feature of gmake I've ever used and missed having in BSD make. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU Tel: +44 20 7631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 20 7631 4844 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message