In article <1293988296.204864.1433545534123.javamail.ngm...@webmail14.arcor-online.net>, <[email protected]> wrote: >Dan LaBell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Because, it's Berkeley not UNIX ;-) > >... but BSD started out of UNIX (Edition 6 I think) > >> Before, Berkeley and UNIX got together, that's not that, much, that's >> great >> about UNIX. NO TCP/IP, and a line editor as the STANDARD editor. >> "Neat-oh, >> so you don't have to enter your scripts into the system with a punch >> card reader" >> is what, I feel most people in software development should think at >> the time. >> >> Before POSIX, and X/OPEN, etc, UNIX vendors would "copy in" Bell's >> "Sys Five" >> features with their own little nuances, and 'creature features'. > >This may be all true. But having some standard for portability (hey, >we are on NetBSD!) isn't a bad thing. Before POSIX there had been the >UNIX wars and divergence... It is good to use a "UNIX" standard to >have portability without much configuring. > >Maybe having option -p for make is not really important but it can be a >debugging aid.
The question is what should -p do? christos
