Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:20:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: two make questions Message-ID: <20020928171519.O32509-100000@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20020927172353.GO30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > yup. or the fact that /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz > documents conditionals in the form #keyword instead of .keyword > (that might work, i haven't tried, but shouldn't the tutorial be > updated? even if the # forms work they surely look deprecated from > the fact that i haven't seen a single use in the system makefiles) Well, what you ought to use is the make(1) man page, which is reasonably decent. The "#" command introducers don't work because "#" is the comment introducer. > hm, i don't think i made myself clear with the previous para. how > about this: is the pmake tutorial mentioned above carved in stone or > are updates allowed? That's a political question, and probably should be asked on current. The answer you're going to get, though, is to go ahead and write up your changes, and see what kind of a reception they get. You won't get anyone to agree to give you permission to make changes until they see what those changes are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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