Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23 May 2006 19:14:34 GMT: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Karen Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22 May 2006 16:49:50 -0700:
>>What is wrong with this? Commands like make have evolved considerably >>since 1972. However, inside the GNU make info page you can read this: >> >> GNU `make' conforms to section 6.2 of `IEEE Standard 1003.2-1992' >> (POSIX.2). > Do you believe all false claims? No, not all. Quite a few, though. > GNU make has many bugs that prevent GNU make from being POSIX compliant. OK. > Some of the bugs are related to the makefile parser and this causes real > problems. That is, problems which stop you getting your work done, not just special boundary cases you can dream up to break things. Are you talking about just plain good old fashioned bugs, where things hang/crash/don't work, or incompatibilities with POSIX, as was being alleged by the OP? Any chance of you giving us an example? -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
