The following reply was made to PR bin/155000; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Colin Percival <[email protected]> To: Bruce Evans <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:41:51 -0800
On 02/24/11 14:35, Bruce Evans wrote: > Except that there is the opportunity to set %POSIX using make -D. This > might be enough in practice. The namespace pollution avoidance is > too perfect -- there seems to be no way to set %POSIX or .POSIX in the > environment. Is this relevant? POSIX says that the Right Way to demand POSIX mode is to put .POSIX on the first non-comment line of the Makefile; our %POSIX variable is a red herring as far as POSIX is concerned. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
