Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 19:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Any objection to adding a .undef(VARNAME) to make? Message-ID: <199504220215.TAA00576@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <24740.798506728@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 95 04:25:28 pm
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> > The subject says it all.. > > I've long been bothered by bmake's inability to programmatically unset > a variable. Assuming that nobody feels it to be too evil a hack to > live, are there any objections to using the keyword `.undef'? > > Yes, it will make us non-standard, but we're essentially ALREADY > non-standard due to having a build system from hell that nobody else > is going to adopt without taking our make, too. 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. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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