Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:32:47 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 Message-ID: <19980510223247.09270@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199805101957.MAA23051@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:57:25PM -0700 References: <199805101957.MAA23051@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 1998-05-10 12:57:25 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed *grumble* Our make is broken, period! Why did you closed the PR? Please fix the bugs or reopen the PR again! > State-Changed-By: phk > State-Changed-When: Sun May 10 12:56:00 PDT 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > what made you think that it should support all of that stuff ? Not all, but some like gmake(1) does. > make only supports some of the primitives to gain some speed, > it has never promised to replace your shell entirely. The meta character optimization is an undocumented (mis-)feature. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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