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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:24:29 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes
Message-ID:  <c06jvt$1brp$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <1075871381.76993.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040206062100.GB29898@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:

> > Type: FEATURE
> > Title: Add new DIRNAME macro
> 
> Why do we define a macro for every utility in /usr/bin?

ISTR that these were originally added to save path lookup times...

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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