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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:22:58 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq Makefile
Message-ID:  <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <199908311459.HAA73710@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Jun Kuriyama on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:59:49AM -0700
References:  <199908311459.HAA73710@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:59:49AM -0700, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> kuriyama    1999/08/31 07:59:49 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq Makefile 
>   Log:
>   We have used ${VAR}, not $(VAR ) . :- )

Well spotted.  

Convention in /usr/share/mk/*.mk shows that ${VAR} is preferred over
$(VAR), but make.1 doesn't imply that there's any difference between them.
I've always used ${VAR} (probably influenced by FreeBSD) but is there
any particular reason to use one form over the other?

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>


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