In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc Espie writes:
: I'm currently over-hauling OpenBSD make.
Yippie. The *BSD makes have drifted badly and are all in need of some
cleanup, some moer so than others. I think it would be in everybody's
best interest to figure out some way to merge the source bases. I'll
be happy to work with people on doin gthi.s
: During my investigations, I've stumbled upon an oddity of the way
: VPATH works.
Eeek. I'm going to run in terror now :-) I never know if teh dark
corners of VPATH are intentional, or just an artifact of a sloppy
implenentation.
: Currently, what I'm interested in is collaboration: this changes the
: semantics of make slightly, in a non-obvious way. If OpenBSD
: performs the change in a dark corner, we'll be able to accept
: Makefiles that other BSD* may complain about. Spewing a `warning,
: non standard feature used' is always possible, but it would be
: better if we could agree on a common plan...
Agreed. I've been working on pulling in the NetBSD and OpenBSD
changes to make(1) as I run into problems, but the project would take
far more time than I have right now :-(.
Warner
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