%% Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jb> Here's the patch. I have already tried to convince the FreeBSD jb> people to adopt a similar patch (to make BSD make accept $^ as an jb> alias for ^>) but that attempt has failed. Please ask if you are jb> interested.
Hm. I don't want to do it this way, since this means that all references to that variable, everywhere, will be modified. I admit it's unlikely that someone will use that variable in other ways but it doesn't seem like a good idea to hardcode this. The right way to implement this is to make this another first-class automatic variable. That's not hard; I don't need a patch for this. However, I need to think about this as it's a backward-incompatibility: it's possible that people are using $> as a variable for other things and this change would break that. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
