Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:41:51 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly Message-ID: <4D66ECBF.7080900@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110225093104.W1474@besplex.bde.org> References: <20110224112657.38420.qmail@xps.daemonology.net> <20110225093104.W1474@besplex.bde.org>
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On 02/24/11 14:35, Bruce Evans wrote: > Except that there is the opportunity to set %POSIX using make -D. This > might be enough in practice. The namespace pollution avoidance is > too perfect -- there seems to be no way to set %POSIX or .POSIX in the > environment. Is this relevant? POSIX says that the Right Way to demand POSIX mode is to put .POSIX on the first non-comment line of the Makefile; our %POSIX variable is a red herring as far as POSIX is concerned. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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