Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 18.06.2017 00:16, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > In article <20170617213136.GA21537%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> > Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 05:28:07PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >>> On Jun 17,  9:38pm, joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
> >>> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make
> >>>
> >>> | Agreed, please revert. This was discussed at the time and FreeBSD
> >>> | behavior you have now implemented is much less useful.
> >>>
> >>> You can get the original with -V '\VAR'
> >>
> >> That's no better than the behavior before.
> > 
> > Now you get:
> > 
> > $ make -V MACHINE_CPU
> > arm
> > $ make -V \\MACHINE_CPU
> > ${MACHINE_ARCH:C/mipse[bl]/mips/:C/mips64e[bl]/mips/:C/sh3e[bl]/sh3/:S/coldfire/m68k/:S/m68000/m68k/:C/arm.*/arm/:C/earm.*/arm/:S/earm/arm/:S/powerpc64/powerpc/:S/aarch64eb/aarch64/:S/or1knd/or1k/:C/riscv../riscv/}
> > 
> > The second is the original version.
> > 
> > christos
> > 
> 
> How about "make -V" getting the original behavior and "make -VV"
> resulting with evaluated one?

I find -V '${foo}' a perfectly reasonable way to spell it, especially
since it works consistently with modifiers. No need for more complexity.

Joerg