From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 14 12:57:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A40737B6F8 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 12:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29976; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:55:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Will Andrews Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: make(1) patches to bypass quietness prescribed by @-prefixed commands in Makefiles In-Reply-To: <20000514154640.Q82488@argon.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 May 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:25:16PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > I like the idea, but the -l flag conflicts with a different usage for > > SVR4 derived makes (on at least AIX, Irix, and Solaris): > > > > -l load > > Specifies that no new jobs (commands) should be started > > if there are others jobs running and the load average > > is at least load (a floating-point number). With no > > argument, removes a previous load limit. Compatibility with those other makes is pretty low to begin with, but it doesn't hurt, I guess, to allow for this. -dl is ok with me. I just wouldn't consider the compatibility thing a real issue if it weren't this easy to satisfy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message