The following reply was made to PR bin/30354; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, dickey@invisible-island.net
Subject: Re: bin/30354: NetBSD make is not POSIX-compliant.
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:16:17 -0400 (EDT)

 On Sat, 28 May 2005, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 27 May 2005 22:29:01 +0200, dickey wrote:
 >
 >> One may note that NetBSD has no support for SCCS rules. So any claims
 >> that it is POSIX-compliant are worthless.
 >
 > In the AFAIK latest (2004) edition of the POSIX standard, anything
 > related to SCCS is marked as a XSI extension. And, in Base Definitions,
 > Section 2 - Conformance, under "2.1.3 - Posix conformance" one can read:
 > "The system may support the XSI extensions ..." Note _may_, not _must_.
 > So this PR should be closed IMHO.
 
 The description of "make" that I indicated does not mention any 
 restrictions.  Can you point to something online which modifies this?
 
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