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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:12:30 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes
Message-ID:  <1074622350.757.65.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20040120180636.GS47004@submonkey.net>
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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:06, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:03:59PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >=20
> > >>>(01.20.2004 @ 1248 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 3.9K: <<
> > >>>Can we at least have
> > >>>
> > >>>OPTIONSNAME?=3D${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}
> > >>>
> > >>>here? It makes sense for all the localized ports, perl, ruby, python=
,=20
> > >>>linux
> > >>>and others.
> > >>
> > >>That makes sense...maybe having the whole trifecta is a good idea, to=
o:
> > >>${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}${PKGNAMESUFFIX}
> > >>
> > >>And what about UNIQUENAME instead of OPTIONSNAME?  This way, it could=
 be
> > >>used for other purposes.
> > >>
> > >>>end of "Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes" from Joe Marcus Clarke <=
<
> > >
> > >
> > >If all you're going for is a unique identifier for each port, this is
> > >guaranteed unique:
> > >
> > >${.CURDIR:S@${PORTSDIR}@@:S@/@_@g}
> > >
> > >x11_gnome2, etc.
> >=20
> > Sorry to bring it up again, LATEST_LINK is designed to do what we want,=
 it
> > has just a stupid name...
>=20
> If it just has a stupid name, then what's wrong with
> OPTIONSNAME=3D${LATEST_LINK} ?

Yes, you and eik are correct.  Even ports that set NO_LATEST_LINK still
have a LATEST_LINK defined for them.

Joe

>=20
> This can easily be changed then at a later date if need be.
>=20
> Ceri
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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