On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> Changing PKGNAME in place with ":=" looks sneaky. I guess you do that
> because "=" won't let you put the variable you're changing on the rhs.

Yes.


> Does that do the right thing in the places where ${PKGNAME} is
> referenced _before_ you change it (e.g., to compute ${PKGVERSION})? 

That seems to work, yes:

	DISTNAME=       pkgrevision_1.0
	PKGNAME=        pkgrevision-1.0
	PKGREVISION=    17
	BAR=            ${PKGNAME}
	do-configure:
	        @echo BAR=${BAR}
	...

This prints the right value on "do-configure".

	BAR=pkgrevision-1.0nb17


> If
> not, the foolproof way would be to make another variable for the whole
> pkgname, and change most (all) of the instances of ${PKGNAME} to refer
> to the new variable.

That's exactly what I wanted to avoid.


 - Hubert

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