Subject: bin/30354: NetBSD make is not POSIX-compliant.
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: None <dickey@invisible-island.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/27/2005 20:29:01
>Number:         30354
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       NetBSD make is not POSIX-compliant.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 27 20:29:01 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Thomas Dickey
>Release:        CVS
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
none needed
>Description:
Comparing this
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/mk/sys.mk?rev=1.84&content-type=text/plain

and this

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/make.html

One may note that NetBSD has no support for SCCS rules.
So any claims that it is POSIX-compliant are worthless.

regards.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the code.
>Fix: