Re: 3.83 testing

David Boyce <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

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?
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