From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 4 6:56:23 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 06:56:21 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE34437B698 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 92802 invoked by uid 1003); 4 Jan 2001 14:56:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:56:13 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Bill Fumerola , Chris BeHanna , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE? Message-ID: <20010104165613.A91031@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200012260828.eBQ8SFF09546@gratis.grondar.za> <20001226231547.R72273@elvis.mu.org> <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk>; from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:44:23PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2001-01-04 (13:44), Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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. all: .depend ? (that is to say, that's what it sounds like, I'm probably not parsing what you mean properly.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message