On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:15:54PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> 
> PATCHFILES!=            p=0;                                            \
>                         while [ $$p -le ${VIM_PATCHLEVEL} ]; do \
>                                 printf "${VIM_VERSION}.%03d " $$p;      \
>                                 p=$$(($$p + 1));                        \
>                         done
> SKIP_PATCHES=           012 027 048 053 064 070 073 087 093 106 107 115 \
>                         116 117 119 121 122 123 125 135 137 138 144 147 \
>                         152 161 162 164 165 179
> .for p in ${SKIP_PATCHES}
> PATCHFILES:=            ${PATCHFILES:N6.0.${p}}
> .endfor

Maybe you could protect the definition of PATCHFILES?

.ifndef PATCHFILES
#
# The code I quoted above goes here.
#
MAKEFLAGS+=		PATCHFILES="${PATCHFILES}"
.endif

I haven't tested, but regardless of whether it solves your problem, it's a
good idea anyway.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>