bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 24 23:41:46 UTC 2011


On 02/24/11 14:35, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Except that there is the opportunity to set %POSIX using make -D.  This
> might be enough in practice.  The namespace pollution avoidance is
> too perfect -- there seems to be no way to set %POSIX or .POSIX in the
> environment.

Is this relevant?  POSIX says that the Right Way to demand POSIX mode is
to put .POSIX on the first non-comment line of the Makefile; our %POSIX
variable is a red herring as far as POSIX is concerned.

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