Re: Aw: Re: No option -p for make?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <1293988296.204864.1433545534123.JavaMail.ngmail%webmail14.arcor-online.net@localhost>,
 <carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost> wrote:
>Dan LaBell <dan4l-nospam%verizon.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Because, it's Berkeley not UNIX ;-)
>
>... but BSD started out of UNIX (Edition 6 I think)
>
>> Before, Berkeley and UNIX got together, that's not that, much, that's  
>> great
>> about UNIX.  NO TCP/IP, and a line editor as the STANDARD editor.  
>> "Neat-oh,
>> so you don't have to enter your scripts into the system with a punch  
>> card reader"
>> is what, I feel most people in software development should think at  
>> the time.
>> 
>> Before POSIX, and X/OPEN, etc, UNIX vendors would "copy in" Bell's  
>> "Sys Five"
>> features with their own little nuances, and 'creature features'.
>
>This may be all true.  But having some standard for portability (hey,
>we are on NetBSD!) isn't a bad thing.  Before POSIX there had been the
>UNIX wars and divergence...  It is good to use a "UNIX" standard to
>have portability without much configuring.
>
>Maybe having option -p for make is not really important but it can be a
>debugging aid.

The question is what should -p do?

christos