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

[Colin Percival]

The following reply was made to PR bin/155000; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org>
To: Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/155000: make(1) doesn't handle .POSIX: correctly
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:41:51 -0800

 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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