On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:27:06 -0600, Warner Losh writes: >And we've had the :U and :L for a similar period of time as well. =
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply age has anything to do with it. The doc I refered to makes it clear that the two sets of conflicting modifers were introduced at about the same time. >Why can't there be a make target that turns them on in FreeBSD compat = >mode. You could then just drop those into bsd.port.mk and be done with = Because then you would lose the functionality that the alternative modifiers provide. Imagine throwing away the ability in /bin/sh to do ${foo:-bar} Also it would perpetuate the divergence in syntax for little reason. BTW there are currently < 300 makefiles in ports/ affected by the transition to bmake, and there were an even smaller number in src/. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"