Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:18:58 +0800 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SF mastersites Message-ID: <CALM2mEkRUhj4yCGGj4B8toFDt6kq%2BUb23fHepyVumceE6PSg%2BA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710291223270.49141@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <467A9534-3B8B-4A99-9788-3F915CA938EC@dsl-only.net> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710291223270.49141@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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@MarkMillard
Thank you for explaining that. Like you said there's lots of stuff that's
just not documented. How should I know that I should check the man page for
Makefile? I appreciate the help with that at least I'll be better informed
in the future.
Things like that should be in the porter handbook as subsections or
something.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017, Mark Millard wrote:
>
> ${NAME:tl} is Makefile notation even in Makefiles having nothing to do
>> with ports (or potentially even FreeBSD). There probably is lots of
>> involved Makefile notation not separately documented in
>> makefile-distfiles.html or other parts of porters-handbook/ .
>>
>
> I've been using "make" since the PWB days, and this is news... The
> trouble is, one would have to suspect that this is yet another variant
> before looking for specific documentation (and I thought "gmake" was bad
> enough).
>
> At least my Makefiles and shell scripts will work anywhere; I don't make
> use of local "features".
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
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