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Re: Missing features from .FEATURES
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Missing features from .FEATURES |
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Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:46:37 -0400 |
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 :-/.
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> 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.