The following reply was made to PR bin/155000; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <[email protected]> To: Colin Percival <[email protected]> Cc: Bruce Evans <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:13:09 +1100 (EST)
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. It allows A Way. Of course you should fix make(1) to support the POSIX way if this is not too hard. If make can see .POSIX before including sys.mk, then it could alternatively include a POSIX-sys.mk instead. This would be cleaner than the ifdefs in sys.mk, and would inhibit breakage of the POSIX case by putting things like CTF in its rules. Bruce _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
