In article <ol52Gsj02QU61U638B@highland.com.au> cagney@highland.com.au (Andrew Cagney) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I'm going back over the notes I made for getting berkley make built on a
>non bsd host (SVR4 to be exact).  One thing I've noticed in the code is
>that bmake uses explicit fields of the wait status (eg x.w_termsig)
>instead of using macros (eg WTERMSIG(x)).
>
>In converting from the old (bad) to the new (good?) form so it would
>build under svr4, I've come across a some what confusing bit of code.
>

You must have really old sources. All this crud has been changed to more
portable constructs... Actually I am planning to commit a change soon
that will get make to compile out of the box on svr4 systems.

christos