On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 15:31 -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > I was referring to .POSIX for parsing and execution in POSIX-conforming > mode. I believe this is a more recent "feature" of GNU Make.
It's not a feature of GNU make per se; it's required by the POSIX standard. Of course, you can create a target named .POSIX in any make, anywhere, but history shows special handling of .POSIX was added to GNU make in 1994. Support for .SECONDARY was added in 1996. > > And, there have been times where new features have been added but > > nothing was added to .FEATURES; sometimes the presence of these is > > testable in other obvious ways. Sometimes we forgot :-/. > > Thanks Paul, that's make sense. Would bug reports be appropriate for the > missing ones? It would depend: which missing ones are you referring to? I don't see any point in adding entries for very old features. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
