From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 6:41: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D840C37B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:40:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1KEeth57579; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:40:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f1KEcBs02400; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:38:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102201438.f1KEcBs02400@billy-club.village.org> To: Jason Brazile Subject: Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$') Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:54:09 +0100." <200102201154.MAA00515@disco.netcetera.ch> References: <200102201154.MAA00515@disco.netcetera.ch> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:38:11 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200102201154.MAA00515@disco.netcetera.ch> Jason Brazile writes: : I want to construct a portable Makefile to build a java application. That's not possible. Java specifies a half assed make system as part of the language, so it is nearly impossible to use another make system on top of it unless you are willing to live with a whole slew of problems. : When a java source file contains an inner class, it creates class : I could live with having to use something like the "yy" target if it : worked with BSD make, because it works with GNU make. This seems like a bug in make(1). Although I think you might want to investigate: d=$$ X=foo\$dbar.class x: echo $(X) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message