Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:40:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make main.c var.c var.h Message-ID: <20050511083434.B2955@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <20050510215930.GA81549@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200505100806.j4A86Edq046232@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050510210440.GT51193@elvis.mu.org> <20050510215930.GA81549@nagual.pp.ru>
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[CC to standards] On Wed, 11 May 2005, Andrey Chernov wrote: AC>On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: AC>> What about a flag/variable that if set enables "full POSIX mode"? AC> AC>Better environment variable with the same name like in GNU utils. You should look up the discussion that took place in standards@ last year or so. There have been some good arguments against using an environment variable. It might be better to use the approach other systems like Solaris use and put the Posix tools (together with man pages, libraries, whatever) into their own directory (/usr/posix, for example). To be honest, I have no idea what the best approach is. There are also others (use a system wide or user configuration file, for example). harti
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