Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 22:19:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Any objection to adding a .undef(VARNAME) to make? Message-ID: <199504220519.WAA00942@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504220356.UAA02180@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Apr 21, 95 08:56:41 pm
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> > It sure would help if you read psd:12 from your 4.4 manual set if > your going to do much more with Make. On page 12-7 you will see > #undef variable described. > > Note that our make uses .undef, and I have tested it, and it works. > > Why do we use . instead of #? I've installed pmake on my system, > but it's not a straight drop-in replacement for make due to this and > other differences. > I do not have an answer for this, it was something done at CSRG. It would be a major rework to change it though! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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