On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:00:26 +0100, Chris Rees writes: >:L -- seems that bmake's use for this is kinda pointless; returning the >name of the variable; we could swap that usage over directly.
Acutally it is very useful. The debugging facilities in dirdeps.mk rely on it. The junos build uses it in many other places too. >:U -- with bmake has non-optional arguments, so for example: > >${VAR:U} - pmake behaviour > >${VAR:Uval} - make behaviour. > >Would that be acceptable? I can get a patch in if that's popular. No, please don't do that. I'm trying to reduce the divergence b/w freebsd and netbsd. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"