Here's the patch. I have already tried to convince the FreeBSD people to adopt
a similar patch (to make BSD make accept $^ as an alias for ^>) but that
attempt has failed. Please ask if you are interested.
--- 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. */
Thanks for considering this enhancement.
--
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