svn commit: r296637 - in head: contrib/bmake contrib/bmake/mk contrib/bmake/unit-tests share/mk usr.bin/bmake

[Jilles Tjoelker]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 04:29:10PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > This code is only in head. My problem is now bmake can only build
> > commits after this one which breaks bisecting and older project branches
> > which haven't or can't merge in head yet.

> > Is the :@ iterator variable deletion change in bmake change necessary?

> In the sense of good hygiene, yes.
> Obviously make will work without it since its been that way for 15
> years, but this AFAIK is the only makefile affected.

I think the ability to bisect without weird local hacks is valuable,
although I rarely do this in a FreeBSD context.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker