Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:45:51 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, bmah@FreeBSD.org, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, will@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Use @comment PLIST variable to track where installed packages came from [Was: Enhancement of pkg_version's version comparison routine] Message-ID: <20001014084551.O95891@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <39E84F54.257664E5@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 03:19:32PM %2B0300 References: <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org> <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9EE01.7A880665@FreeBSD.org> <200010031657.e93Gvtg10718@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DB17BB.12805565@FreeBSD.org> <200010060426.e964Qvx70814@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DE1A48.C7C8C9CF@FreeBSD.org> <vqc8zrx8nlp.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <39E84F54.257664E5@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 03:19:32PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> With this message I'm attaching slightly revised bsd.port.mk patch, which doesn't invoke separate
> processes (BTW, Will can you please extend our make(1) to let address words in variables using their
> numbers, something like ${SOMEVAR:123}?).
You mean their substring number? I.e., if the string contains "blah1
blah2 blah3 blha5 blah21" and you want ${SOMEVAR:4}, it returns "blha5",
right?
That could easily be implemented, although I'm not sure about the
implications of such a feature.
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