On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:35:44PM -0500, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

 > FreeBSD make has the ability to uppercase or lowercase a variable
 > by using the U or L modifiers. Say, if FOO=bar, then ${FOO:U} == BAR.
 > 
 > NetBSD make does not have this ability. Since NetBSD make uses U and
 > L for something totally different, we would need a different set
 > of modifiers. I propose something like modifiers of "tu" and "tl"
 > (for "toupper" and "tolower").
 > 
 > If I kick in the code would someone commit it? Please? 

Those modifiers sound fine to me.  Be nice if you could get other
BSD make(1)'s to support it, too.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>