svn commit: r186502 - head/usr.bin/make

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:46:24PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <luigi at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Log:
> >   Clarify the behaviour of conditionals when dealing with comparisons.
> >   In particular, point out that string comparison can only use != and ==
> >   (how weird, given that the underlying call to strcmp returns more
> >   information), that floating point values are correctly interpreted
> >   as numbers, and that the left-hand side must be a variable expansion.
> 
> Any chance of fixing items 1 and 3?

item 1 is easy except perhaps for Locale issues which however should not
be a big deal in this context.
item 3 should also be easy.

But the thing i wonder about is whether there is any standard that
mandates this beviour, or we are relatively free to make enhancements
to our "make" program.

	cheers
	luigi