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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20170617222558.GA24656%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>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.

And it still does. You cannot use -VV because of getopt(3). You can use
a different letter. The complexity is when I get this long string instead
of the evaluated variable.

christos