Re: make: avoid breaking backwards compatability

[Antoine LECA <antoine.leca.1%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 2014-09-01 19:15Z, Simon Gerraty wrote:
> The patch below adds a knob "POSIX_STRICT" (better names welcome),

Posix standard did specify a way to achieve it: the implementation is
supposed to detect the occurring of the special
        .POSIX:
target [first] in the makefile, and then turns on its "compatibility
mode" (the very effect of your posix_strict flag, AFAICT.)

Would it be very complex to implement that instead of the detection of a
brand new POSIX_STRICT=1 macro?


Antoine