Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:15:37 +0900 (JST) From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp> To: alane@geeksrus.net Cc: znerd@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .for woes Message-ID: <20020312.111537.68555250.uebayasi@soum.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020311233400.GB70667@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <02031123024601.00964@heinz> <20020311232536.GA70667@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020311233400.GB70667@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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> Hmm, that evaluation at the time of the .for is counter-intuitive but a test > case proves it to be how it works. I personally think that basically make(1)'s conditionals and loops should be used only where the resulting statement can be represented only with the conditionals or loops. That is, the resulting statement is a target difinition or an assignment. So in the previous case, making use of /bin/sh is better, IMO. Masao To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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