From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 06:12:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24FE106566B; Thu, 31 May 2012 06:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sjg@juniper.net) Received: from exprod7og119.obsmtp.com (exprod7og119.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869F38FC08; Thu, 31 May 2012 06:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from P-EMHUB01-HQ.jnpr.net ([66.129.224.36]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob119.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKT8cLu12KKk03aMEhWWThgIUY/VYgiiND@postini.com; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:12:15 PDT Received: from magenta.juniper.net (172.17.27.123) by P-EMHUB01-HQ.jnpr.net (172.24.192.33) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.213.0; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:10:48 -0700 Received: from chaos.jnpr.net (chaos.jnpr.net [172.24.29.229]) by magenta.juniper.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id q4V6Am140238; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjg@juniper.net) Received: from chaos.jnpr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chaos.jnpr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91AC5807B; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:04:51 -0700 (PDT) To: "Kevin P. Neal" In-Reply-To: <20120531024557.GA3609@neutralgood.org> References: <201205302223.q4UMN95p083678@svn.freebsd.org> <20120531024557.GA3609@neutralgood.org> Comments: In-reply-to: "Kevin P. Neal" message dated "Wed, 30 May 2012 22:45:57 -0400." From: "Simon J. Gerraty" X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82+cvs; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:04:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20120531060451.B91AC5807B@chaos.jnpr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" Subject: Re: svn commit: r236338 - head/usr.bin/make X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 06:12:15 -0000 Hi Kevin, On Wed, 30 May 2012 22:45:57 -0400, "Kevin P. Neal" writes: >> Deprecate the FreeBSD make's ":U" (to-upper case) and ":L" (to-lower case) >> modifiers for ":tu" and ":tl" from OSF's ODE, which made its way into >> NetBSD's make, which is the source for the Portable Berkeley Make. > >This is an incorrect history. I'm the source of NetBSD make's ":tu" and ":tl" >modifiers. The closest I've ever come to OSF ODE is reading about it a little >in NetBSD make's man page. Yes, you are right, :t* were not from ODE. I think David was refering to the :L and :U modifiers that (as you noted) I added to NetBSD make along with :D, :P, and :@, that all originated in ODE. This patch adds :tu and :tl as aliases for freebsd's :U and :L, so that makefiles at least can start to converge. --sjg