Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:09:47 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistency in /usr/bin/make Message-ID: <20021014130947.GA93923@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021014121423.GB364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20021014095718.GU364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021014113622.GA76880@sunbay.com> <20021014121423.GB364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:14:23PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # ru@FreeBSD.ORG / 2002-10-14 14:36:22 +0300: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:57:18AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > In any event, could someone point me to a place in the make(1) man page > > > where it says that the S and C modifiers dereference variables given in > > > both the pattern and replacement, while the N and M modifiers insist on > > > being fed literal strings? I couldn't find it. Thanks! :) > > > > The last paragraph of the S modifier talks about variable expansion > > inside the "old_string" and "new_string". There is no similar talk > > in the M and N descriptions. Even the OpenBSD's make(1) is subject > > to this same restriction. > > Ok, so that's the missing part. Anyway, is there a technical reason > why this is so? > Yes, there is. You forgot to send us the patch. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qsIbUkv4P6juNwoRAqD8AJ4j9fSegAFCuqhO2IBPDSXIW0TNOQCeNKG1 6gTvg7mQQuf/oSYhnPObSRQ= =+RBu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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