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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Colin Percival
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