Re: [RFC] Removin the old make

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:59:42 +0100
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:49:37AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 23:38:54 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to start using bmake only syntax on our infrastructure for that I
> > want to make sure noone is using the old make, so I plan to remove the old make
> > from base, I plan to do it by Feb 16th.
> 
> How does this affect non-system Makefiles that depend on pmake?  Is
> bmake completely upward compatible?

There are very few issues, not that fmake is available from ports, I think 99%
of the compatibility are preserved I know about a couple of incompatibilities
that are bothering me in ports (for the infrastructure) but I would say this is
very much a corner case

Bapt

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