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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/smake
From: Michael Baeuerle
Date: 2021-04-26 12:38:11
Message id: 20210426103811.88EA4FA95@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
devel/smake: Update to 1.4
Changelog from AN-2021-04-21:
- smake: We now support the idiosyncratic way, GNU make implements ::=
that results in unpredictable behavior with larger makefiles since ::=
creates a different macro type that causes the += operator to behave
different from the usual way introduced in January 1986 by SunPro Make.
+= does not expand the right hand side before appending to an existing
make macro since it has been introduced in January 1986.
+= now expands the right hand side before appending to an existing
::= typed macro. Such a macro is created if the first assignment
to that macro is done via ::=.
Using such a make macro does not expand such macros at use time.
This includes expansions to the left side and the right side of
a colon (:) dependency list and expansions for rule commands.
- smake: The new operators :::= and +:= have been introduced in
order to add an orthogonal (and thus better) counterpart to the
GNU make ::= feature that has become part of the upcoming POSIX
ISSUE 8.
We will propose this as a new POSIX feature soon. In special since
it has been implemented in smake and SunPro Make, see below.
:::= assigns a normal make macro after expanding the right hand side
+:= appends to any maro type after expanding the right hand side
This permits predictable behavior for larger or structured makefile
systems (based on the "include" statement), where it is not possible
to know easily whether a mace macro has been created with a
NAME=value assignment or with a NAME:=value assignment.
Note that the official method in make since 45 years (since make
exists) to prohibit macro expansion is not to use a ::= type macro
but rather to use two '$' signs in the related value of the macro.
- smake: The man page now mentions the new features
- smake: The option -j maxjobs is now supported, but ignored.
This makes smake compatible to the upcoming POSIX ISSUE 8
- smake: added a new function ungetch().
- smake: version bumped to 1.4
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