On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:05:27PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> That's a good idea, thanks. I just sent an e-mail coining the concept to
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Fyi, I just sent a patch to to help-make; who knows Paul may accept it.
--- expand.c.orig Mon Jun 19 13:23:35 2000
+++ expand.c Sat Jun 1 00:42:11 2002
@@ -373,6 +373,11 @@
/* A $ followed by a random char is a variable reference:
$a is equivalent to $(a). */
+
+ /* Treat $> as $^ for compatibility with BSD make. */
+ if (*p == '>')
+ *p = '^';
+
{
/* We could do the expanding here, but this way
avoids code repetition at a small performance cost. */
--
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