From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 1 1:38:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C7937B406 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0040.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.40] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17E4Os-0004js-00; Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:38:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF887D7.27BBFAE5@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:37:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jos@catnook.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch) References: <20020531024250.GA90997@lizzy.catnook.com> <3CF73679.A5AB7886@mindspring.com> <20020531170746.GA93242@lizzy.catnook.com> <3CF7EDC5.CF27B997@mindspring.com> <20020601015343.GA1132@lizzy.catnook.com> <3CF8825A.E05C65AC@mindspring.com> <20020601082419.GA10523@lizzy.catnook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jos Backus wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:14:18AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Jos Backus wrote: > > > Fyi: it appears nobody is really interested in having BSD make and GNU make > > > converge a little, so I am not going waste any more time on this. > > > > I'm really against GNU-ifying BSD make. > > I hope you don't see any problems with generally improving compatibility > between the two? As long as any changes do not conflict with OpenBSD "make", NetBSD "make", BSDi "make", Darwin "make", or "OP make". It's a lot easier to change gmake, I think... I think "OP make" is most important: http://openpackages.org/ -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message