Re: 3.83 testing
David Boyce <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel |
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On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]> wrote: > David Boyce <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Don't you think that having a way to switch make to the sane newline >>> handling from the POSIXly-correct one would be useful? Something like >>> a special target in the Makefile? I could definitely use such an >>> option. >> >> Wouldn't that be the already-existing .POSIX: target? > > No, .POSIX: switches make to the POSIX mode. What I am looking for is > a way to disable the POSIX newline escaping handling (and only that). > Which, I believe, is a mis-feature. Right. What I mean is, if it's a mis-feature but required by posix, why not limit it to .POSIX mode?