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Date:      Fri, 03 Mar 1995 12:09:21 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.org, ports@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Ok, I'm stumped. 
Message-ID:  <29751.794261361@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 95 02:06:37 PST." <199503031006.CAA19336@idiom.com> 

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> * What would be neat would be some way of picking off the `entry' in
> * bsd.port.subdir.mk and checking to see if the value of "X${NO_$${ENTRY}}"
> * = "X", but I don't see any easy way of doing the recursive shell
> * variable expansion.
> 
> I'm not much of an sh programmer, but when working with shells, there's
> just one rule to follow: 	eval
> [example deleted]

Been there, done that, can't make it work.

Would you care to enlighten us with a more functional change to
bsd.port.subdir.mk? :-)

						Jordan
> 'Hokay, let's put 'em in a file.  In a directory with subdir port makes, 
> create a file called ...  Skip.  Anything in skip is skipped.  Use grep

Ooh, I'd much rather avoid a solution like that! :-(

There MUST be a way.  Grrrr!

					Jordan



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